Salesforce · 6 hours ago
Software Engineering Architect - Industries Cloud
California - San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$218K/yr - $365K/yr
15+ years expSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, driving innovation and customer success through technology. The Software Engineering Architect role within the Industries Cloud team involves architecting scalable solutions, integrating AI components, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to address complex business challenges.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCRMSaaSSales EnablementSoftware
Responsibilities
Drive the end-to-end architecture for mission-critical products and services, ensuring enterprise-grade scalability, maintainability, and reliability
Maintain your coding edge by dedicating approximately 20% of your time to hands-on development, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and validating new architectural patterns
Partner directly with SVPs, EVPs, and business leaders to translate complex challenges into actionable technical roadmaps
Leverage your deep expertise in distributed systems, backend technologies, and diverse cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Alibaba) to architect robust and high-performing solutions
Spearhead the integration of cutting-edge AI components into our platforms, shaping the future of intelligent CRM
Cultivate a culture of engineering excellence by actively mentoring and guiding a significant number of engineers (20-100+), fostering their technical development and understanding of complex architectures
Act as a critical liaison, working consultatively across a large engineering organization to improve communication, foster teamwork, and drive technical alignment
Champion continuous improvement in platform reliability and serviceability, driving research and prototyping of innovative technologies
Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, applying your deep expertise to resolve complex real-time challenges and ensure highly available services
Qualification
Required
15+ (ideally 20+) years of hands-on software development experience with a proven track record of designing, building, and delivering large, complex enterprise-grade projects
Mastery across multiple programming languages and platforms, with a strong understanding of architectural patterns for highly scalable and resilient systems
Demonstrated expertise in architecting and implementing distributed systems, backend technologies, and cloud-native solutions (AWS, GCP, Alibaba experience highly valued)
A passion for innovation, with experience driving research, POCs, and integrating emerging technologies like AI
Exceptional ability to independently craft and deliver strategic technical reports and performance presentations to executive leadership and external audiences
Proven success in fostering technical performance architecture that addresses the most complex performance bottlenecks
Deep experience in setting long-term design strategies that span multiple complex projects
Strong informal mentorship capabilities, with a passion for guiding and developing engineering talent. You build an environment for clear and open discussion, involving the right people to resolve critical issues
Comfortable working within short release cycles and the full software development lifecycle, with experience in publicly released, multi-release products
Proficiency with Agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum)
A related technical degree is required
Benefits
Time off programs
Medical
Dental
Vision
Mental health support
Paid parental leave
Life and disability insurance
401(k)
Employee stock purchasing program
Company
Salesforce
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65.38MKey Investors
Starboard ValueEmergence CapitalHalsey Minor
2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
2004-06-23IPO
2003-01-01Series Unknown· $1M
Leadership Team
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Chairman & Ceo Salesforce India
Kendall Collins
CEO, GovCloud - Salesforce
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