Salesforce

Senior backend Engineer - Java

Salesforce$148K — $246K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years experience in designing and building large scale, distributed backend systems.
  • Proficient in API design, versioning, and creating systems for multi-team use.
  • Strong skills in at least one modern programming language with a history of shipping production code.
  • Ability to communicate clearly about tradeoffs in complex systems.
  • Demonstrated experience using AI tools to enhance engineering workflows.
  • Advanced prompt engineering skills for reliable AI tool outputs.
  • Related technical degree.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build a core agent framework for specialized capabilities.
  • Define reusable agent skill contracts focusing on API design and composability.
  • Build evaluation infrastructure to measure and manage agent quality.
  • Facilitate efficient data retrieval for agents using structured queries and catalogs.
  • Ship high quality production software with a focus on AI integration.
  • Maintain a shared system context for accurate AI operation.
  • Evaluate code for correctness, quality, security, and performance.

Benefits

  • Resources supporting work-life balance and personal growth.
  • Access to cutting-edge AI tools to enhance productivity.
  • Opportunities to shape the future of AI and make a significant impact.
  • Supportive environment for continuous learning and development.
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

The Experience The Agentic Setup team builds AI agents, on a skills based architecture, that turn expert only, multi step product configuration, Org troubleshooting and management into natural language, agent assisted workflows. As part of this team, you will work across agent runtime, capability and skill design, evaluation infrastructure, and the systems that let agents find and act on the right data.We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to help us build agentic experiences for product setup and configuration. You will help design a core agent framework, contribute to a growing skills ecosystem, and build the evaluation infrastructure that keeps agent behavior trustworthy as it scales. This role is based in San Francisco. You'll join a team building intelligent systems that automate the repetitive, elevate the strategic, and power better decisions at scale.What You'll Actually Be Doing

Design and build a core agent framework that hosts many specialized capabilities, orchestrates sub tasks reliably, and integrates seamlessly into human workflows.

Define the contract for reusable agent skills, focusing on API design, versioning, and composability so many teams can build and contribute consistently.

Build evaluation infrastructure that measures agent quality even when outputs are non deterministic, and use that signal to catch regressions over time.

Help agents efficiently find the right records and context using structured queries, catalogs, and semantic search.

Build and ship high quality, production grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow, pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high quality code.

Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.

Critically evaluate code, human or AI generated, for correctness, quality, security, and performance.

You're Our Person If...

You have 6+ years experience designing and building large scale, distributed backend systems.

You have experience with API design, versioning, and building systems that many teams build on top of.

You have strong skills in at least one modern programming language and experience shipping production code.

You can reason clearly about ambiguous, large scale systems and communicate tradeoffs to a team.

You have a demonstrated, genuine AI first approach to engineering, using AI tools (such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Cursor) to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.

You have advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts, cultivating the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production ready.

You have a related technical degree.

Even Better If...

You have experience building or working with AI agents, large language model (LLM) based systems, or evaluation infrastructure for non deterministic outputs.

You have experience with retrieval systems such as semantic search or structured data catalogs.

You have experience migrating purpose built automation into general, composable APIs.

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