Software Engineer LMTS — Big Data Focus

Salesforce

Salesforce

Software Engineering
Palo Alto, CA, USA · San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 167,300-276,100 / year + Equity
Posted on Dec 24, 2025

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

About the Role
Salesforce is seeking an experienced, versatile, and mission-driven Software Engineer (LMTS) with a Big Data focus to join a team leveraging advanced algorithms, Big Data technologies, and generative AI to build process intelligence capabilities in the Agentforce platform. You will drive the development of features and integrations that will enable companies to leverage massive volumes of data from myriads of sources to discover, automate, and optimize their business processes. You will bridge the gap between "Data Engineering" and "Software Engineering" — writing high-quality production code that leverages distributed query processing to enable efficient AI and Analytics at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, implement, test and deliver highly scalable products
  • Master our development process, culture and code base, then improve it
  • Design, develop, test, and maintain Big Data queries
  • Own the performance of your queries: deep dive into query plans to enhance scalability, performance, and efficiency
  • Design, develop, and enhance performance benchmarks for Big Data queries
  • Come up with innovative ideas to improve robustness, scalability and performance.
  • Drive architectural decisions across teams and guide the implementation of complex features.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers
  • Operate optimally in the hybrid engineering model where engineers are encouraged to be able to craft and complete the vital work to ensure quality in their own code as well as other engineers
  • Develop test strategies, design automation frameworks, write unit/functional tests to drive up code coverage and automation metrics
  • Actively participate in release and deployment process.
  • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address sophisticated problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available

Required Skills

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
  • 6+ years of professional software development experience
  • Proficiency in Java backend development
  • Proficiency in Big Data technologies like Spark, Trino or similar SQL query engines), Iceberg, Kafka
  • Experience in automated testing including unit and functional testing using Java, JUnit, JSUnit, Selenium
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Office-Flex: Work in-person three days per week; or 10 days per quarter for some engineering teams

Preferred Skills

  • Familiarity in building and delivering highly scalable, reliable, and complex software systems in a hosted cloud environment using AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • Experience in working and developing with AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent field
  • Track record of being a top performer in current and past roles

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.

The typical base salary range for this position is $167,300 - $253,000 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $200,800 - $276,100 annually.

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.