About the position
Salesforce is transforming the way prospects, customers, and Trailblazers interact with the company on the web. We are unifying the digital experience of online visitors across corporate brand websites and our Trailblazer ecosystem on a shared digital platform. The result will be dynamic and personalized based on a visitor's role, industry, and location. It will also be a showcase of Salesforce products. The Principal Software Engineer role is part of the Platform Services team within Salesforce’s Digital Marketing Technology group, responsible for the innovation of our Salesforce digital experiences globally, leveraging best-in-class technology and systems. This role encompasses defining and overseeing architecture, design, implementation, and testing strategies focused on the Content, Data, and Taxonomy domains, ensuring technical excellence, long-term scalability, and high-quality product delivery across the digital experience.
Responsibilities
- Establish the technical vision and unlock best-in-class capabilities in the marketing technology ecosystem for Content, Data Management, and Taxonomy domains.
- Serve as the authoritative technical leader, providing architectural guidance, influencing technical decisions across multiple teams and the broader organization, while ensuring optimal business outcomes.
- Proactively partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define, shape, and champion the technical aspects of product roadmaps to align with business goals and architectural vision.
- Drive the design and architecture of complex, high-impact technical solutions that translate business requirements into robust, scalable, reliable, and secure systems, while leveraging of Salesforce product suite.
- Innovate and invent the future of Agile and DevOps, drive continuous improvement with a focus on process, controls, scalability, and maturity.
- Continuously evaluate, assess, and advocate for the adoption of cutting-edge tools and technologies that drive significant improvements in engineering efficiency, productivity, and future-proofing.
- Elevate the overall technical strength of the engineering organization by actively coaching, mentoring, and setting a high bar for technical excellence, architecture, and engineering best practices.
- Cultivate and thrive in a culture of ownership, high-quality delivery, and continuous innovation.
Requirements
- 12+ years of professional software development experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining large-scale, highly performant, and resilient production services.
- Experience in developing scalable and highly performant AI-powered solutions in content classification and taxonomy domains.
- Expertise in designing and managing complex, large-scale data pipelines, including data modeling and schema design, for efficient data processing and transformation.
- Experience in microservices architecture, domain driven design, and RESTful API's.
- Experience building high-scale microservices on AWS (preferred), GCP, or other public cloud substrates.
- Experience developing front-end and back-end software, preferably including JavaScript or TypeScript, with frameworks such as React and runtimes, including Node.js.
- Understanding of test-driven development, and associated frameworks (Jest, Cucumber, other related testing frameworks a plus).
- Demonstrated ability to drive long-term design strategies across multiple complex projects, ensuring cross-platform compatibility.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, with a track record of mentoring and fostering a culture of technical excellence in highly agile environments.
- A passion for innovation and staying current with industry trends and emerging technologies.
Benefits
- time off programs
- medical
- dental
- vision
- mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
