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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.

The Salesforce Cloud Economics and Capacity Management (CECM) team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer with experience across distributed systems to join us!You will be working cross-functionally with engineers, Fin Ops analysts, and product managers to build the breakthrough features that our internal customers will love, adopt and use while ensuring stable and scalable applications. You'll be a part of a modern, lean, self-governing Fin Ops product engineering team where you have the ability to switch hats between coding to requirements gathering, to testing for quality and performance.CECM develops intelligent, data-driven tools which enable strategic financial operations (Fin Ops) decision-making pertaining to Salesforce infrastructure expenditure and capacity management. We are building a platform that provides near real-time monitoring of cloud cost and capacity utilization of the infrastructure, which will help in optimizing resource allocation, forecasting spend, and minimizing costs. We incorporate advanced machine learning techniques to turn the petabytes of data generated by our global infrastructure into actionable predictions and business insights used by Fin Ops practitioners, internal service owners, and technical leaders daily. As an internal tooling team, engineers are expected to directly interact with customers to develop requirements and design, release and maintain distributed systems with visibility throughout Salesforce.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is passionate about building scalable, resilient, distributed systems that collect, process, and analyze massive volumes of cloud cost and usage data. The skillset requires strong data architecture, data processing, SQL and a proven track record working with enterprise metrics to build automated data pipelines. Broad experience in distributed backend development is preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, automate, enhance, maintain scalable data pipelines

• Independently design and develop resilient and reusable data automation frameworks

• **Lead distributed backend development pipeline development being delivered by multiple engineers (predominantly Python) **

• Automate cost anomaly detection, alerting, forecasting, budget process, and other Fin Ops capabilities

• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to visualize cloud cost and usage trends

• Collaborate with finance and engineering teams to understand and manage cloud spending

• Lead and participate in requirement gathering, design, and development of complex datasets

• Mentor team members in all aspects of the data maturity lifecycle

• Work and collaborate with global teams across AMER and APAC regions Required Skills/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

• 7 years of experience in data engineering, preferably in cloud or Fin Ops environments

• Experience in distributed computation such as Spark and Trino

• Deep expertise in building data pipelines using tools like dbt, Airflow, and similar orchestration frameworks

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

• Experience working in Agile and Scrum methodology, incremental delivery, and CI/CD

• Experience in at least one cloud service providers including AWS or GCP

• Experience in distributed backend software engineering environments

• Experience with data visualization tools, preferably Tableau

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.

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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 - $313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $344,700 annually.

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.