Salesforce · 15 hours ago
Software Engineering Principal Architect
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$258K/yr - $452K/yr
15+ years expSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, known for driving customer success through innovation and technology. The Principal Architect will lead the design and evolution of scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant transactional and distributed systems, ensuring operational excellence and influencing technical direction across teams.
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Responsibilities
Design and evolve highly scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant transactional and distributed system architectures
Provide architectural leadership for transactional storage and compute, including metadata, logs, and database compute layers
Drive automation and operational excellence through control-plane-driven architectures
Ensure systems meet strict Trust SLAs for availability, reliability, scalability, and self-healing
Collaborate across engineering, operations, and product teams to align architecture with business and platform goals
Use telemetry and metrics to guide design decisions and continuous improvement
Mentor senior engineers while remaining open to learning and feedback
Contribute hands-on when needed, including design reviews, code reviews, and critical implementations
Qualification
Required
Proven experience designing and building scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant transactional and distributed systems in enterprise production environments
Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence across teams and levels
Highly inventive, pragmatic, and delivery-focused, with a track record of incremental, on-time execution
Expert-level Java development experience in Unix/Linux environments
Deep understanding of object-oriented programming, modern design patterns, and system architecture principles
Strong experience using telemetry, metrics, and observability to drive operational excellence
High engineering rigor, including writing functional and unit tests and participating in peer code reviews
Experience working in Agile development environments with a commitment to continuous improvement
15+ years of professional experience, or a Master's degree in a relevant field with 12+ years of professional experience
Preferred
Experience with relational databases is a strong plus
Benefits
Time off programs
Medical
Dental
Vision
Mental health support
Paid parental leave
Life and disability insurance
401(k)
Employee stock purchasing program
Company
Salesforce
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65.38MKey Investors
Starboard ValueEmergence CapitalHalsey Minor
2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
2004-06-23IPO
2003-01-01Series Unknown· $1M
Leadership Team
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Chairman & Ceo Salesforce India
Kendall Collins
CEO, GovCloud - Salesforce
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