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Salesforce

Principal Software Engineer (PMTS)

Washington - Bellevue · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
PythonJavaFastAPIFlaskSpringDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewPostgreSQLMySQLRedisAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDPlatform EngineeringAPI DevelopmentRESTPandasSparkData EngineeringAgentic AI

About the role

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Responsibilities

  • Drive the architecture, design, implementation, and delivery of secure, highly scalable backend services deployed on Kubernetes in a cellular, multi-AZ cloud architecture, and act as the technical leader for one or more teams..
  • Own the architecture for Python-based data processing services and ETL pipelines that feed large-scale data ingestion and transformation, ensuring contracts with the data platform layer are clean and forward-compatible..
  • Architect database consolidation and migration efforts using PostgreSQL, Liquibase, and connection pooling strategies, and validate the technical plans your teams produce against scalability, availability, and tenant-isolation requirements..
  • Drive integration with big data query and processing layers (distributed query engines, columnar storage formats) so analytical workloads route correctly and meet SLOs..
  • Architect authentication and authorization integrations with identity providers (session-based auth, mTLS for service-to-service communication) and partner with Security on threat modeling, AppSec, and AI safety guardrails for new features..
  • Define SLIs and SLOs for the team's features and services in partnership with Product, design rollout strategy and telemetry that spans pre-release / canary / stagger periods, and lead service ownership: on-call rotations, ops and readiness reviews, runbooks, and automation..
  • Write architectural documents, design specifications, and test plans for projects that span multiple teams; lead and participate in design reviews; and provide constructive feedback on peer teams' designs..
  • Shape the team through reviews and backlog stewardship: coach LMTS and SMTS engineers primarily via design and code reviews, manage the technical backlog so team goals and long-term technical debt are both addressed, and propose standards where they don't yet exist across the organization..
  • Lead collaborative incident response: facilitate sev-1/sev-2 bridges, drive root-cause analysis and follow-through on corrective actions, and contribute directly to live production issues alongside the on-call engineer when the situation demands it..

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of shipping enterprise SaaS at scale and operating in a Principal-level technical leadership capacity..
  • Strong proficiency in Java and Python, with production-level fluency across both in real systems..
  • Deep experience with Java backend frameworks: Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA, Tomcat, and relational database integration (PostgreSQL, MySQL)..
  • Architectural expertise in relational databases, data modeling, schema migration tools (Liquibase, Alembic), and query optimization..
  • Deep experience with multi-tenant SaaS ecosystems and cloud platform engineering, including tenant-isolation patterns across database, cache, and storage layers..
  • Experience designing, operating, and evolving highly available distributed systems on AWS or comparable cloud platforms, with 99.99%+ availability targets..
  • Expertise in containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) in production environments..
  • Experience with big data technologies: Apache Spark, Trino/Presto, Parquet, Iceberg, or similar columnar/lakehouse formats..
  • Experience with automated testing including unit, integration, and functional testing (JUnit, pytest, Selenium, Playwright), and a track record of defining test strategy for complex, cross-team systems..
  • Track record of acting as the senior technical contact for enterprise customer integrations - negotiating contracts, unblocking integration engagements, and shaping product direction based on customer signal..

Nice to have

  • Experience leveraging AI capabilities for SDLC automation - context-aware code generation, code review workflows, automated testing, vulnerability detection and remediation, and/or CI/CD optimization..
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies, test-driven development (TDD), and zero-downtime deployment patterns (blue/green, rolling releases)..
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Skills

  • A related technical degree required..
  • Apache Spark, Trino/Presto, Parquet, Iceberg, or similar columnar/lakehouse formats..
  • Proficiency with Python backend/data frameworks (SQLAlchemy, FastAPI or Flask) and data processing libraries (PySpark, Pandas)..
  • Experience with Redis (caching, pub/sub, session management) and S3-based storage patterns..
  • Familiarity with the business process management, process mining, or workflow automation domains..
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Company info

  • coach LMTS and SMTS engineers primarily via design and code reviews, manage the technical backlog so team goals and long-term technical debt are both addressed, and propose standards where they don't yet exist across the organization..
  • Act as the senior technical owner for enterprise customer integration engagements - partner with customers, integration partners, and peer cloud teams to unblock complex integrations, ratify integration patterns, and translate customer requirements into forward-compatible API contracts..
  • Lead the API strategy powering the pillar's headless architecture: own the design, versioning, deprecation policy, and long-term contract stewardship for public and internal APIs that expose Process Intelligence capabilities to Agentforce agents, Salesforce clouds (Data Cloud, Sales, Service, Field Service), and external customers..
  • Champion Customer Trust within the team: reinforce non-functional requirements and engage directly with customers to validate that features solve real problems..
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