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Lead Software Engineer - FinOps. Apply for remote type Office Tech-Flexible locations California - San Francisco; California - Palo Alto; Washington - Seattle; Washington - Bellevue. Time type: Full time. Posted on: 3 Days Ago. Job requisition id: JR300958.

Job Category: Software Engineering

About Salesforce

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The Salesforce Cloud Economics and Capacity Management (CECM) team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer with experience across distributed systems to join us. You will work cross-functionally with engineers, FinOps analysts, and product managers to build features that internal customers will love, adopt and use, while ensuring stable and scalable applications. You will be part of a modern, lean, self-governing FinOps product engineering team where you switch between coding, requirements gathering, and testing for quality and performance.

CECM develops intelligent, data-driven tools enabling strategic financial operations (FinOps) decision-making related to Salesforce infrastructure expenditure and capacity management. We are building a platform that monitors cloud cost and capacity utilization in near real-time to help optimize resource allocation, forecasting spend, and minimize costs. We use machine learning techniques to turn large data into actionable predictions and insights for FinOps practitioners, internal service owners, and technical leaders daily. As an internal tooling team, engineers interact with customers to develop requirements and design, release and maintain distributed systems with visibility across Salesforce.

This is a great opportunity for someone passionate about building scalable, resilient distributed systems that process massive volumes of cloud cost and usage data. Strong data architecture, ETL, SQL and experience with enterprise metrics to build automated data pipelines are required. Broad experience in distributed backend development is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to visualize cloud cost and usage trends
• Collaborate with finance and engineering teams to understand and manage cloud spending
• Automate cost anomaly detection, alerting, forecasting, budget processes, and other FinOps capabilities
• Independently design and develop resilient and reusable automation data frameworks
• Lead distributed backend development pipeline development delivered by multiple engineers (predominantly Python)
• Lead and participate in requirement gathering, design, and development of complex datasets
• Mentor team members in all aspects of the data maturity lifecycle
• Work with global teams across AMER and APAC regions

Required Skills/Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, preferably in cloud or FinOps environments
• Experience in distributed SQL analytics engines such as Spark and Trino, and cloud cost management platforms
• Deep expertise in building ETL pipelines using tools like dbt, Airflow, or similar orchestration frameworks
• Understanding of cloud cost management principles and FinOps methodologies
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working in Agile and Scrum methodology, incremental delivery, and CI/CD
• Experience in at least one cloud service provider including AWS or GCP
• Experience in distributed backend software engineering environments
• Experience with data visualization tools, preferably Tableau

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In the United States, compensation offers are determined by location, job level, knowledge, skills, and experience. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits including time off, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchase program.

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