Software Engineering Architect - DevXP AI team

Salesforce•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a senior engineering leader for the Developer Experience (DevXP) AI team, which equips the engineering organization with Agentic SDLC solutions across the development lifecycle. The team owns AI tooling end to end—including distribution, monitoring, evangelism, evaluation, and cost management—and develops and experiments with internal tools such as AI code review agents. The role sets the technical direction for AI-enabled software development at Slack and leads architectural work affecting the Product, Design, and Engineering organization. It combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration, prototyping, and organizational change.

Requirements

10–15+ years of software engineering experience, with a record of technical impact at staff, senior staff, or principal level.
Deep expertise in AI development tools and frameworks, such as Claude Code, Cursor, LangChain, and LangGraph, including experience architecting, distributing, and championing them at organizational scale.
Advanced systems design and architecture skills, including the ability to navigate multiple complex codebases and guide globally optimal technical decisions.
Expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and services, including designing for high availability, enterprise-grade security, and massive scale while managing operational costs.
Deep familiarity with developer productivity metrics, evaluation, and large-scale systemic improvement.
Exceptional cross-functional leadership and communication skills, including the ability to turn substantial technical ambiguity into actionable strategies for technical and business stakeholders.
A related technical degree.

Nice To Haves

Experience using Slack and a keen, critical interest in improving the platform.
Leadership experience in Developer Experience, Platform Engineering, or internal developer tooling teams.

Responsibilities

Define the long-term technical roadmap for Agentic SDLC and guide tradeoffs involving strategy, team allocation, and project sequencing.
Lead architectural and design discussions across system boundaries and codebases to develop scalable, globally optimal solutions; identify and drive systemic architectural improvements.
Collaborate with cross-functional partners in design, customer experience, finance, business operations, and marketing to provide strategic clarity.
Build hands-on prototypes to validate long-term technical and product strategies, and foster experimentation and calculated risk-taking.
Take ownership of delivering high-quality code and impactful features, using failures as opportunities for organizational learning.