Principal Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineering)

Join Salesforce as a Principal Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineering) and lead the technical direction of our complex, high-scale consumption and usage-metering systems. In this senior, hands-on technical leadership role, you will set architecture, drive execution, and own delivery end-to-end across the full software development lifecycle. You will be the go-to technical authority across team boundaries, raise the bar through reviews and mentorship, and ensure the accuracy, performance, and scalability of Digital Wallet for every Salesforce customer.

Lead the technical direction of complex, high-scale consumption and usage-metering systems, setting architecture and driving execution.

Responsibilities

• Architect and ship complex, end-to-end features spanning multiple services, systems, and teams, ensuring performance, scalability, and security.
• Mentor and elevate senior/lead engineers and peer teams, primarily through reviews, and lead service-ownership practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong track record of designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and elevate the technical capabilities of the teams you work with
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Mastery of engineering fundamentals — fault tolerance, concurrency, API design, data modeling, maintainability, security, scalability, testability — across multiple domains
• Demonstrated history as a senior IC driving architecture and execution across multiple teams or domains
• Strong ability to communicate technical vision, trade-offs, and strategy to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, up to VP level
• Hands-on experience across the full SDLC (hybrid engineering), owning features end-to-end from design through production support
• Passion for innovation and staying current with industry trends and technologies
• Experience with consumption-based / usage-based pricing, metering, entitlement, or billing systems and related technologies
• Familiarity with near-real-time data pipelines, usage aggregation, and financial-grade data accuracy
• Familiarity with Salesforce’s Data 360 and Salesforce's Core and Off-Core architecture and integrations
• Deep experience driving operational maturity — post-incident reviews, process improvement, best practices for critical systems
• Skill translating broad business goals into sharp, actionable technical roadmaps

Preferred

• Experience building high-scale services across both Platform (Core) and Off-Core / distributed service environments

Pay

USD 197,300 - 344,700