Salesforce
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PrincipalMemberofTechnicalStaff(PMTS)–CoreMetadataPlatform(InformaticaCDGC)
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“Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) – Core Metadata Platform (Informatica CDGC) at Salesforce. Skills: AI, distributed systems, metadata management, platform architecture. Architect and implement foundational backend systems. Solve hard AI challenges”
What You'll Achieve.
Empowering enterprise customers to unleash AI on their data safely and effectively
Industry & Context.
Solve hard AI challenges; architecting solutions that solve profound business and technical challenges
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, architecting, building, and scaling deeply complex, high-throughput distributed backend systems, Deep readiness and proven ability to solve novel challenges in the AI world, working knowledge of LLM integration, agentic frameworks, semantic reasoning, vector embeddings, RAG architectures, Deep expertise in building, optimizing, and operating distributed computing architectures, large-scale data processing engines, Deep mastery of metadata management, highly scalable graph databases, distributed caching, microservices architecture, Experience building systems where security, data governance, and access control are paramount, designing these guardrails for machine-to-machine or agent-to-system interactions, Extensive experience building on public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Kubernetes, Docker, serverless technologies, Demonstrated ability to lead complex, multi-year technical initiatives from inception to delivery, Expert-level proficiency in backend programming languages such as Java, Go, or C++
Nice to Have
hands-on experience with Apache Spark, Experience with modern open table formats such as Apache Iceberg, Deep domain expertise in Data Governance, Data Catalogs, enterprise Master Data Management (MDM), Experience with massive-scale graph databases (e.g., Neo4j, Neptune), complex query languages (Gremlin, Cypher), Active contributions to cutting-edge open-source projects in the data, AI, or distributed systems space, A builder mentality with a passion for navigating the ambiguity of the AI space and delivering rapid, iterative value to customers
What You'll Do.
Architect and implement foundational backend systems
Solve hard AI challenges
Build robust semantic search capabilities
Mitigate LLM hallucinations
Design fail-safe guardrails for agentic actions
Design highly resilient
distributed backend architectures
Drive technical innovation
Drive high-stakes proofs-of-concept into production reality
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner directly with Product Management; Partner with AI Researchers; Partner with Data Science
Process & Methodology
Lead complex, multi-year technical initiatives
Full Job Description
_To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts._ Job Category Software Engineering Job Details ****About Salesforce**** Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Department: Software Engineering – Informatica CDGC Unit About Us At Salesforce, we are the global leader in CRM, bringing companies and customers together in the digital age. We are a team of Trailblazers building the future, and Trust is our number one value. Welcome to the era of the Agentic Enterprise. We are rapidly expanding our Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC) unit to meet the massive, unprecedented challenges of the AI revolution. This team is at the bleeding edge of enterprise data intelligence, and we are looking for a visionary Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) to join our Core Metadata Platform team. This team powers the deeply complex, highly scalable backend that serves as the brain of CDGC. If you are a battle-tested engineering rockstar who thrives on solving the hardest, most ambiguous challenges in the AI world and wants to define the foundational architecture for the Agentic Enterprise, you belong here in our Ohana. The Role As a PMTS on the Core Metadata Platform, your mission is to bridge the gap between traditional distributed systems and the wild frontier of autonomous AI. You will be responsible
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