Lead Backend Engineer, Agentforce for Supply Chain

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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.

Opportunity & Product

Join an agile team with deep startup roots. We operate as a high-velocity 'startup-within-Salesforce,' following our recent acquisition. You’ll be managed by the same founders and engineers who built the original company, offering the autonomy of a small team backed by the global scale and trust of Salesforce. You will have the unique opportunity to build a '0 to 1' product with the founding team, while leveraging Salesforce's world-class Data Cloud and security infrastructure to drive immediate global impact at scale.

Global supply chains still rely on slow, manual processes—email, spreadsheets, and fragmented data. The economy moves fast but supply chains don’t, creating an inefficiency that affects the $13T of goods shipped annually and is one of the largest untapped opportunities in modern enterprise.

Agentforce for Supply Chain is reimagining the supply chain with an AI-powered platform for designing, automating, and orchestrating end-to-end business processes, with seamless collaboration through familiar channels like email. For Salesforce, this represents a major back-office growth opportunity, while also delivering innovations that enhance the existing front-office business. Customers are clamoring for more, rapidly expanding their use cases as we enter an exhilarating growth phase. As one user put it: “I’ve been waiting for this for 20 years.”

What you’ll do
 

As Lead Backend Engineer for the Agentforce for Supply Chain – Super Agent team, you will be a hands-on technical leader across the team's backend. Expect to split your time between feature delivery and system improvements, while also playing a key role in diagnosing and prioritizing the deeper architectural work that will define the platform's next phase.

The Super Agent backend manages complex, infinitely configurable state with equally complex state transitions and interfaces to teams across Agentforce Supply Chain. It was built with intentional startup speed that created tight coupling, limited observability, and reliability gaps now surfacing as customer adoption accelerates. You'll be tackling a wide front of system challenges simultaneously, from decomposing coupled domains to hardening state transitions to establishing observability and testing patterns, while continuing to ship product value on a system customers depend on daily.

You'll operate with meaningful autonomy while building alignment across engineering and product stakeholders, with ample opportunity for advancement by raising the bar on system quality, leveling up the engineers around you, and ultimately accelerating us toward our ambitious goals.

Responsibilities

• Ship features and system improvements across the Super Agent backend, from user-facing capabilities to foundational reliability and performance work

• Diagnose and prioritize architectural problems across the backend, contributing technical perspective to help the team invest in the right foundational work at the right time

• Design and drive solutions to hard system problems including domain decomposition, state transition reliability, observability, and testing infrastructure

• Raise and maintain our engineering quality bar through pragmatic standards, guardrails, and team practices that prevent regressions and keep code healthy over time

• Collaborate with peers across customer, product, and engineering to deeply understand customer needs, make pragmatic tradeoffs that maximize impact, and align on engineering reality

• Mentor engineers as a senior peer and force multiplier, sharing expertise across backend architecture and system design while helping shape stronger engineering judgment, more effective collaboration, and a higher-performing team

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience as a backend engineer, building and operating user-facing web applications

• Deep expertise in multiple areas of backend engineering such as data modeling, db performance tuning, state management, API design, transactionality, concurrency, fault tolerance, and scaling, with the ability to pick up new technologies quickly

• Repeated ownership of foundational system work in complex SaaS systems, from diagnosing architectural problems to designing solutions to driving adoption across a team

• Excellent writing skills and ability to lead real-time technical-design discussions

• Experience working in tandem with Product Managers and Engineers to shape requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and balance product delivery against foundational investment

• Demonstrated ownership and accountability, with a consistent track record of high standards, continuous improvement, and low-ego collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science (M.S. preferred)

• Notable open-source work, patents, or published research

• Mastery of Golang, Graphql, and PSQL

• Exposure to the supply chain, logistics, or manufacturing industry. (We will teach you otherwise!)

• Familiarity with the Salesforce platform

• Experience working within rapidly evolving systems, balancing early-stage ambiguity with scaling, reliability, and maintainability concerns

• Experience with workflow engines

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.