As a Software Architect at Salesforce, you won't just design systems – you'll be at the forefront of defining scalable, resilient, and intelligent solutions that power the world's most critical business operations. This is a highly influential role where your technical mastery and strategic vision converge to drive groundbreaking innovation. You'll drive the end-to-end architecture for mission-critical products and services, ensuring enterprise-grade scalability, maintainability, and reliability. You'll craft overarching architectural principles, frameworks, and standards. You'll build marketing tools that connect the world’s largest companies with their customers. You will maintain your coding edge by dedicating approximately 20% of your time to hands-on development, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and validating new architectural patterns. You will partner directly with SVPs, EVPs, and business leaders to translate complex challenges into actionable technical roadmaps. You will leverage your deep expertise in distributed systems, backend technologies, and diverse cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Alibaba) to architect robust and high-performing solutions. You will spearhead the integration of cutting-edge AI components into our platforms, shaping the future of intelligent CRM. You will 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. You will act as a critical liaison, working consultatively across a large engineering organization to improve communication, foster teamwork, and drive technical alignment. You will champion continuous improvement in platform reliability and serviceability, driving research and prototyping of innovative technologies. You will participate in the team’s on-call rotation, applying your deep expertise to resolve complex real-time challenges and ensure highly available services.