Salesforce

Principal Software Engineer, Full Stack

Salesforce$197K — $344K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in full stack development, preferably in an AI-focused environment.
  • Proficiency in Nix-based development environments and devcontainer management.
  • Experience with Bazel build systems and remote build execution optimization.
  • Strong understanding of security compliance standards and supply chain management.
  • Familiarity with observability tools and building telemetry dashboards.

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain Salesforce Workspaces devcontainer images.
  • Develop and enhance devcontainer features aligned with feature standards.
  • Lead the initiative for healthy and reproducible workspace environments.
  • Optimize Bazel build infrastructure and performance metrics for Salesforce Workspaces.
  • Develop and manage backend services for workspace provisioning and lifecycle management.
  • Drive security and compliance for workspace image supply chains.
  • Automate observability and diagnostics for workspace health and performance.

Benefits

  • Access to cutting-edge AI tools and resources.
  • Support for work-life balance and personal development.
  • Opportunities for cross-functional collaboration and technical leadership.
  • Comprehensive internal documentation for onboarding and support.
  • Participation in a rotating support hero schedule for hands-on issue resolution.
Full Job Description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

Role Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled Full Stack Software Engineer to enhance the development experience for UI and Java developers in an AI First development (ADLC)  organization in the Technology & Product organization at Salesforce. In this role, you will be a dynamic, innovative engineer and as such you will design, develop products and services that enable Salesforce developers to deiver workflows in remote development environments. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, work and contribute to open source, investigate/explore/GTM new AI solutions to deliver efficiency, reliability and 10x productivity to Tech & Product developers.

Key Responsibilities

Developer Environment Platform

  • Design, build, and maintain the Salesforce Workspaces devcontainer base image (Nix-based), encompassing user home directory persistence, lifecycle service management via s6-overlay, and automated rebuild and rollback mechanisms

  • Develop and own devcontainer features (Agentforce, OrgFarm, CoreApp settings, Git clone, etc.) in accordance with the devcontainer feature backbone framework and established "blessed" feature standards

  • Lead the Gold Standard Workspaces initiative — defining, enforcing, and continuously improving criteria for healthy, reproducible, and supportable workspace environments, including feature versioning, pinning, and compliance validation

Build Systems & Remote Build Execution

  • Own and optimize Bazel build infrastructure for Salesforce Workspaces, including Remote Build Execution (RBE) integration with BuildFarm, disk and cache tuning, and multi-codeline build performance

  • Conduct in-depth build performance analysis — profiling critical path bottlenecks, RBE worker failures, cache hit ratios, and memory and page-cache behavior — and implement targeted solutions

  • Collaborate with JetBrains (external vendor) and internal CBX/Bazel teams on BSP/Bazel plugin stability for IntelliJ, including diagnosis of mapping failures, logging issues, and RBE action input failures

Control Plane & Backend Services

  •  Develop and maintain the sfw-controlplane-api service, including workspace provisioning pipelines, Temporal workflow and schedule management, DynamoDB table provisioning, snapshot lifecycle management, and Hyperforce/Falcon deployments

  • Implement the Single Schema / Single Config initiative — unifying workspace configuration into a single devcontainer schema that supports multiple features with minimal developer setup overhead 


 

Security, Compliance & Supply Chain

  • Drive workspace image supply chain security: migrate OCI base images to Trusted Image Central (TIC), enable Renovate for automated dependency updates, and manage associated security CARs and PRBs

  • Enable SFCI builds for Nix-dependent repositories by mirroring public Nix packages into Nexus/Artifactory and migrating EBS snapshot creation off EC2 instances onto scheduled Jenkins jobs

  • Maintain security compliance for the Workspaces fleet — eliminating configuration drift, enforcing security SLAs, managing deactivated-user workspace shutdowns, and owning corrective actions arising from security reviews


 

Observability & Reliability

  • Own and evolve Workspaces observability by building dashboards and telemetry in Honeycomb and driving migration to Monitoring Cloud/AutoTelemetry; analyze workspace creation failures, rebuild error rates, and vault reliability signals

  • Build AI-powered diagnostic tooling (e.g., a Workspaces Diagnostic Agent) to automate fleet health checks, reduce on-call MTTR, and contribute reusable skills to the CDW Marketplace


 

Developer Support & Incident Response

  •  Participate in a rotating support hero schedule — triaging and resolving Sev3 and above incidents involving snapshot failures, workspace creation issues, IDE connectivity (IntelliJ, VS Code, Cursor), and disk/RBE problems

  • Maintain and improve internal developer documentation covering workspace setup, sfworkctl, disk management, and developer tooling onboarding

 
 

Cross-Team Collaboration & Technical Leadership

  • Partner with CBX/Bazel, SFCI, JetBrains, OrgFarm, Temporal, and Falcon/Hyperforce platform teams to unblock and deliver workspace platform improvements

  • Author technical design documents and 1-pagers, lead deep-dive sessions, drive V2MOM measure execution, and contribute to sprint planning and Kanban backlog replenishment

Unleash Your Potential

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