Lead Software Engineer, (Python/Flask)
Salesforce · Posted Sep 24
Customer relationship management, cloud computing, enterprise software, and artificial intelligence solutions
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About the role
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together, and Agentforce is the future of AI. The team builds and maintains internal applications and data platforms that help sales, engineering, operations, and leadership teams work more effectively, supporting 800+ engineers. This role owns automation end-to-end, building scalable Python/Flask microservices, secure REST APIs, cloud infrastructure as code, and enterprise integrations to improve platform reliability and developer productivity.
What you will do
- Build reliable business applications that ensure important sales and operational data is captured, maintained, and easily accessible.
- Improve workforce and resource planning by developing tools that help teams manage requests, assignments, staffing, and operational activities.
- Work with large-scale data and integrations, connecting information across multiple systems and making it available through useful applications and dashboards.
- Automate and simplify business processes by replacing manual or disconnected workflows with scalable, user-friendly solutions.
- Enable better decision-making by providing leaders and teams with accurate, timely data for forecasting, planning, and reporting.
- Develop intelligent capabilities such as recommendations, data matching, notifications, and AI-assisted workflows that improve productivity and data quality.
- Design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade platforms supporting hundreds of engineers.
- Own Infrastructure as Code across AWS, Azure, and GCP via containerization.
- Build scalable Python microservices and internal platforms using Flask.
- Develop and maintain production-quality serf service apps within the platform.
- Design secure REST APIs with authentication, authorization, observability, and monitoring.
- Integrate enterprise applications using Informatica IICS (CDI, CAI) and rapidly adopt additional integration modules.
- Build highly available containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Troubleshoot production issues across networking, cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD pipelines, APIs, and enterprise integrations.
- Apply DevSecOps principles, including secrets management, IAM, vulnerability remediation, and policy automation.
- Partner with architects and engineering leadership to improve platform reliability and developer productivity.
- Drive AI-assisted software development using Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools while maintaining production-quality standards.
- Mentor engineers and establish engineering best practices.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years of Total experience
- 5+ years of Flask development (Python)
- Certified in at least one of the hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake) and 3+ years of relevant experience
Preferred qualifications
- Preferred experience of 3+ years in DevOps / Cloud Operations / Application Maintenance
Benefits and support
- Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best
- Our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best
About Salesforce
Salesforce, Inc. is a leading global cloud-based enterprise software company specializing in customer relationship management (CRM) and artificial intelligence solutions. Through its integrated Customer 360 platform, the company provides applications for sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, and analytics. Powered by innovations like Agentforce, Salesforce helps businesses bridge human capability with autonomous AI agents to drive customer success.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 87000+ employees
- Founded
- 1999
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $25B raised
- 2026-03Post-IPO Debt$25B
- 2003-01Venture Round$1M
- 2001-06Series D$46.9M
- 1999-11Series C$13.2M
- 1999-06Series B$3.8M
Leadership
Chair, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
President & Chief Operating and Financial Officer
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Slack
President & Chief Strategy Officer
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