Senior backend Engineer - Java

Salesforce
San Francisco, Palo Alto
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 148,500 - 223,900 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Tradeoff analysis","Critically evaluating correctness and quality","Security and performance awareness","Prompt engineering"]

Build a core agent framework and evaluation infrastructure for agentic product setup and configuration experiences. You’ll define reusable agent skills (API design, versioning, composability), integrate with human workflows, and measure agent quality for non-deterministic outputs. Help agents retrieve the right records using structured queries, catalogs, and semantic search, while delivering secure, production-grade backend software as AI becomes a core part of development.

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Senior backend Engineer - Java

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Job Summary

Build a core agent framework and evaluation infrastructure for agentic product setup and configuration experiences. You’ll define reusable agent skills (API design, versioning, composability), integrate with human workflows, and measure agent quality for non-deterministic outputs. Help agents retrieve the right records using structured queries, catalogs, and semantic search, while delivering secure, production-grade backend software as AI becomes a core part of development.
Location: San Francisco, Palo Alto
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build a core agent framework that hosts specialized capabilities and orchestrates reliable sub-tasks.
  • •Define contracts for reusable agent skills, including API design, versioning, and composability for multiple teams.
  • •Build evaluation infrastructure to measure agent quality and catch regressions over time despite non-deterministic outputs.
  • •Enable agents to find the right records and context using structured queries, catalogs, and semantic search.
  • •Critically evaluate code (human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance; ship production-grade software using modern practices with AI in the workflow.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 148,500 - 223,900 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPaid ParentalLife InsuranceDisability Insurance401kEquity

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years experience designing and building large scale, distributed backend systems.
  • •Experience with API design, versioning, and building systems that many teams build on top of.
  • •Strong skills in at least one modern programming language and experience shipping production code.
  • •Ability to reason about ambiguous, large scale systems and communicate tradeoffs to a team.
  • •Related technical degree.
Experience:6+ yearsDistributed systemsAI agentsLLM systems
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingTradeoff analysisCritically evaluating correctness and qualitySecurity and performance awarenessPrompt engineering
Tech Stack:JavaAPI designVersioningComposabilityLLMAI agentsPrompt engineeringSemantic searchStructured queriesRetrieval systemsClaude CodeGitHub CopilotCodexCursorEvaluation infrastructureNon deterministic outputs

Company Brief

Salesforce
Provides a leading cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform with sales, service, marketing, analytics, and integration tools that empower businesses to manage customer relationships and digital transformation at scale.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 1999
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