Job Description
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Job Category
Software Engineering
Job Details
About Salesforce
Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.
We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way.
And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world.
If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good you’ve come to the right place.
The Core Optimizer Team is looking for Principal Software Engineer.
Are you excited about the opportunity to influence the Multi-tenancy strategy for Salesforce by being involved with visionary technologies?
Do you want to work on scaling enterprise-grade services? Do you like a start-up delivery style with the vastly powerful Customer Success Platform?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, you can join a dynamic Technology team within Salesforce.com.
We Are
The core optimizer team at Salesforce seeks a proven engineer to help build exciting and highly scalable features for our multi-tenant cloud-scale application.
Core Optimizer is a highly specialized team within Salesforce.com that is responsible for dynamic query generation to handle billions of transactions per day.
Trust is one of our core values; but how do we ensure trust, how do we scale? The Core Optimizer team works on several exciting features that do just that.
The Optimizer engine instructs the native database optimizer to make optimal decisions which is unaware of the multi-tenant database architecture.
You Are
The ideal candidate has experience in solving real-world, highly scalable transactional problems for large scale relational database systems.
As an engineer with core optimizer, you’ll be working on code that’s closest to the business. Your work will impact our customers across the globe.
You will help us build features to solve customer problems while also having the opportunity to develop cloud-scale innovative solutions.
If you are excited by the opportunity to work with a world-class technical team to deliver high traffic, high performance, highly evolved solutions that satisfy billions of requests a day and deliver an experience that delights millions of users, then we want to talk with you.
Responsibilities
• Help design, develop, bring to production at a large scale and support new features on a world-class service that serves billions of requests daily on a diverse corpus of data against a relational database.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• Help design and operationalize usage metrics and patterns to identify opportunities to improve, and to create visibility.
• Contribute to the analysis of functional requirements.
• Implement and support tools to simplify debugging of performance issues in production.
• Investigate production problems to help solve customer problems.
Required Skills
• Over 10+ years of experience in Java or other comparable Object Oriented Programming Language.
• Strong SQL experience on any relational database system in production.
• Expert in performance optimization, scalability and algorithms.
• Ability to learn quickly and deliver high quality code in a dynamic team environment.
• Ability to quickly respond to the changing business needs and roll out functionality in small increments rather than a big bang approach.
• Ability to communicate well, present ideas and solutions, and coherently discuss complex topics with the team and broader technical audience.
• Expertise in Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
Desired Skills
• Strong understanding of database design, SQL optimizations and SQL tuning of relational databases.
• Experience building Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.
Accommodations
If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.
Posting Statement
At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces.
We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more.
Learn more about Equality at www.equality.com and explore our company benefits at www.salesforcebenefits.com.
Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, ****** orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Salesforce does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.
Salesforce welcomes all.
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.
For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $176,800 to $341,+00.
For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $1+2,+00 to $372,+00.
Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link : https : / / www.salesforcebenefits.com.
J-18808-Ljbffr
Last updated : 2026-0+-05
Job Category
Software Engineering
Job Details
About Salesforce
Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.
We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way.
And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world.
If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good you’ve come to the right place.
The Core Optimizer Team is looking for Principal Software Engineer.
Are you excited about the opportunity to influence the Multi-tenancy strategy for Salesforce by being involved with visionary technologies?
Do you want to work on scaling enterprise-grade services? Do you like a start-up delivery style with the vastly powerful Customer Success Platform?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, you can join a dynamic Technology team within Salesforce.com.
We Are
The core optimizer team at Salesforce seeks a proven engineer to help build exciting and highly scalable features for our multi-tenant cloud-scale application.
Core Optimizer is a highly specialized team within Salesforce.com that is responsible for dynamic query generation to handle billions of transactions per day.
Trust is one of our core values; but how do we ensure trust, how do we scale? The Core Optimizer team works on several exciting features that do just that.
The Optimizer engine instructs the native database optimizer to make optimal decisions which is unaware of the multi-tenant database architecture.
You Are
The ideal candidate has experience in solving real-world, highly scalable transactional problems for large scale relational database systems.
As an engineer with core optimizer, you’ll be working on code that’s closest to the business. Your work will impact our customers across the globe.
You will help us build features to solve customer problems while also having the opportunity to develop cloud-scale innovative solutions.
If you are excited by the opportunity to work with a world-class technical team to deliver high traffic, high performance, highly evolved solutions that satisfy billions of requests a day and deliver an experience that delights millions of users, then we want to talk with you.
Responsibilities
• Help design, develop, bring to production at a large scale and support new features on a world-class service that serves billions of requests daily on a diverse corpus of data against a relational database.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• Help design and operationalize usage metrics and patterns to identify opportunities to improve, and to create visibility.
• Contribute to the analysis of functional requirements.
• Implement and support tools to simplify debugging of performance issues in production.
• Investigate production problems to help solve customer problems.
Required Skills
• Over 10+ years of experience in Java or other comparable Object Oriented Programming Language.
• Strong SQL experience on any relational database system in production.
• Expert in performance optimization, scalability and algorithms.
• Ability to learn quickly and deliver high quality code in a dynamic team environment.
• Ability to quickly respond to the changing business needs and roll out functionality in small increments rather than a big bang approach.
• Ability to communicate well, present ideas and solutions, and coherently discuss complex topics with the team and broader technical audience.
• Expertise in Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
Desired Skills
• Strong understanding of database design, SQL optimizations and SQL tuning of relational databases.
• Experience building Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.
Accommodations
If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.
Posting Statement
At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces.
We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more.
Learn more about Equality at www.equality.com and explore our company benefits at www.salesforcebenefits.com.
Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, ****** orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Salesforce does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.
Salesforce welcomes all.
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.
For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $176,800 to $341,+00.
For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $1+2,+00 to $372,+00.
Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link : https : / / www.salesforcebenefits.com.
J-18808-Ljbffr
Last updated : 2026-0+-05
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Principal software engineer position is now open for candidates interested in the IT Engineer & Developer Jobs sector. This role in San Francisco offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in IT Engineer & Developer Jobs is a plus.
