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# Lead Software Engineer - Platform Services at Salesforce

Compensation · Listed in posting

$172,500 – $260,100/yr

**Location**
: San Francisco, California · Palo Alto, California · +4

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: lead/mgmt

**Posted**
: May 15, 2026

## Description

Salesforce is hiring a Lead Software Engineer – Platform Services to provide hands-on technical leadership for scalable, secure, resilient cloud-native platform services and large-scale distributed systems. The role partners with engineering, product, architecture, and platform teams to design APIs, technical roadmaps, observability, DevOps, and AI-assisted engineering workflows, while mentoring engineers and improving engineering standards. Candidates need at least 8 years of professional software development experience, a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related technical subject, and experience with microservices, distributed systems, cloud platforms, APIs, security, testing, and identity technologies.

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