Flink Senior/Lead Software Engineer

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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.

Sales Cloud AI is revolutionizing how organizations strategize, execute, and refine their lead outreach and pipeline management. We are looking for engineers to develop the Sales Intelligence Platform (SIP) within Sales Cloud. In this role, you will be responsible for the architecture, development, and operation of a high-scale, low-latency platform that manages real-time ingestion and streaming pipelines.

The Sales Intelligence Platform (SIP) processes conversational data from voice, video, and email to power various Sales Cloud AI agents. These agents provide tools for lead outreach and pipeline management, significantly boosting sales productivity. By generating intelligent insights from conversational data, the platform empowers sellers to enhance their overall efficiency.

Required skills and experience

• Degree in Computer Science (B.S. required, M.S. preferred) with a solid grasp of object-oriented design and principles.

• Over 7+ years of practical experience architecting, implementing, and managing durable distributed systems at scale for major enterprise cloud providers.

• Proven track record in constructing high-availability, large-scale distributed architectures for client-facing environments.

• Hands-on experience with building big data high availability pipelines with Flink

• Demonstrated experience acting as a CI/CD champion, with a proven ability to uplift and mentor teams in best practices and automation.

• Extensive knowledge of contemporary public cloud frameworks (including AWS, GCP, or Azure) and high-performance backend infrastructure.

• Proficiency in object-oriented programming with mastery in at least one language such as Java, Go, Python, C++, or Ruby.

• Familiarity with infrastructure automation, cloud provisioning, and AI-assisted development methodologies.

• Strong interpersonal and professional communication skills, with a focus on cross-functional collaboration and leadership.

• Commitment to technical excellence through meticulous attention to detail and proactive mentorship of junior engineers.

Preferred qualification

• Proven ability to develop low-latency, large-scale data ingestion pipelines

• Background in creating enterprise-grade, AI-driven sales solutions

• History of architecting distributed real-time streaming systems

• Expertise with message queuing technologies like Kafka

• Hands-on experience with open-source ecosystems including Flink, Spark, Storm, Cassandra, Zookeeper, and MongoDB

• At least 5 years of experience with Java, Spring, microservices, REST APIs, and distributed systems

• Knowledge of deployment architectures and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, and Spinnaker

• Familiarity with container orchestration platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, Helios, Fleet, or Mesos

• Experience managing and monitoring mission-critical infrastructure, including logging, alerting, and reporting services

• Proficiency in using NoSQL and SQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB

• Deep understanding of high-volume distributed databases, data pipelines, and large-scale systems

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 $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.