SalesforceCalifornia - San Francisco

Lead Software Engineer, Backend – Enterprise Productivity

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HybridFull Time$172.5k - $260.1k per yearPosted 1 day ago

About the role

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 About Salesforce Salesforce is the 1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. ABOUT SLACK Slack is your Digital HQ – a place where work flows between your people, systems, partners, and customers. From Fortune 100 companies to corner markets, millions of people around the world use Slack to connect their teams, unify their systems, and drive their business forward. Slack breaks down communication silos inside and beyond your organization by bringing teams and tools together around common goals, projects and processes in channels and in Slack Connect. In this digital-first era, Slack's mission is to make people's work lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. A taste of our scale and reach:

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Slack delivers 300k+ messages per second
77% of the Fortune 100 use Slack
150+ countries have daily active users in Slack
200k+ paid customers The Experience The Enterprise Productivity team gets orgs authenticated and connected to their productivity suites (Google Workspace and Microsoft 365) and admin tools. Our mission is to close the productivity gap between Slack and Microsoft Teams and unlock deep interoperability with the Microsoft and Google suites, making Slack the clear choice for enterprise customers. You'll work with product managers, designers, frontend, mobile, and quality engineers, and with partner teams across Platform, Slackbot, and 3P Integrations. We build on PHP/Hack, Java, and MySQL. Expertise in these is a plus, but familiarity with other web languages (Python, Ruby, Go) and relational databases is a fine substitute. We value simplicity and reliability as properties of a system to be carefully calculated with every decision. Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture. We look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every day. We aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. What you will actually being doing:
Design and build backend services and API methods for admin and user authentication and connection flows with Google and Microsoft (OAuth, domain-wide delegation, token management, and permission policies).
Own and evolve the Admin Productivity Suite backend, including bulk approve/install pipelines, install-state storage, failure handling, and admin analytics.
Partner with Product, Design, and Frontend to ship features that raise connected-user and DWA adoption, using experiments and data to guide the roadmap.
Work across team boundaries (Platform, Slackbot, Enterprise Search, 3P Integrations) on shared permission, auth, and connector frameworks, including the evolution from 2.0 connectors toward MCP.
Contribute heavily to team projects with significant business impact, and own the long-term health of the systems you build.
Write secure, well-documented designs and work with Security through scoped review.
Help support and operations triage and resolve production issues.
Mentor other engineers, review code in depth, and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes. You are our person if You have:
6+ years of professional experience building web applications or backend services.
Experience with PHP/Hack, Java, Python, Ruby, Go, or similar languages.
Experience with OAuth 2.0/OIDC and authorization models, ideally with Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 / Entra ID integrations (admin consent, domain-wide delegation, Graph or Google APIs).
Ability to contribute to technical architecture discussions and drive technical decisions within the team.
Understandable, testable, maintainable code.
Strong communication skills, including explaining complex concepts to designers, support, and other engineers, and collaborating across teams.
Solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
A related technical degree. Even Better If You have:
Experience with enterprise admin tooling, permission policies, or multi-tenant (Enterprise Grid) architectures.
Experience with feature flags, experimentation, and data-driven product development.
Experience with MCP or connector frameworks. Unleash Your Potential When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world. Accommodations If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this [Accommodations Request Form](https://careers.mail.salesforce.com/accommodations-request-form?ga=2.139086459.912759425.1690463420-976932181.1684251251). Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our [Candidate Privacy Statement](https://www.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/documents/legal/Privacy/salesforce-candidate-privacy-statement-december-2024.pdf) for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options. Posting Statement Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. [Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal.](https://www.eeoc.gov/know-your-rights-workplace-discrimination-illegal) Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education. In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500
$260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800
$285,800 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.