Senior Salesforce Engineer

Block•Bay Area, CA, United States of America, CA

1d•$142,600 - $257,600•Remote

About The Position

At Block, we build elegant solutions to solve real problems. As a CRM Salesforce Developer, you will be responsible for developing customized solutions within the Salesforce platform. Designing, coding, and implementing Salesforce applications. Creating timelines and development goals. Testing the stability and functionality of the application.

Requirements

8+ years of Salesforce development experience supporting enterprise scale solutions leveraging Sales Cloud & Service Cloud.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or similar) for Salesforce deployments
Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and prompt engineering for code generation
Experience with trunk-based development, feature branching, and delta deployment strategies
Knowledge of event-driven architecture patterns (Platform Events, CDC, Pub/Sub API)
Experience with test optimization — mocking frameworks, selective test execution, parallel testing
Extensive development experience using Apex, Triggers, Visualforce, Lightning Components, Web Services, and Salesforce API (REST/SOAP/MetaData)
Hands-on experience with Salesforce Administration including configuration, standard data model, security, and automations such as validation rules, workflows, process flows
Experience and knowledge of relational databases, data modeling, and ETL tools
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

Experience with CPQ and quote to cash processes a plus
Experience building or consuming AI/LLM-powered agents or automation
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code for Salesforce environments (sandbox seeding, metadata automation)
Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Splunk) for production Salesforce monitoring
Knowledge of Salesforce DevOps Center or similar source-tracking tools

Responsibilities

Leverage AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate delivery and code quality
Develop world class technical solutions to support critical business objectives
Lead projects throughout key phases of the Salesforce development lifecycle
Improve platform code performance, security, scalability, and reliability by identifying process bottlenecks, data issues, and inconsistencies
Design and implement feature flag strategies for safe, decoupled deployments
Drive test automation modernization (mocking/stubbing, selective test execution, sub-10-min validation)
Build event-driven integrations using Platform Events, Change Data Capture, and Pub/Sub API
Contribute to developer experience tooling — sandbox automation, deployment scripts, AI-powered code review
Own CI/CD pipeline health — build, test, and deploy automation
Collaborate with business partners, engineers, and business systems analysts to determine CRM needs and help implement best practices