Senior Software Engineer - Backup & Recover

About the role

Salesforce is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Backup & Recover team in Tel Aviv, Israel. You will build the backend systems that protect and restore customers' critical Salesforce data, working on distributed, cloud-based services at global scale with AI as part of how the team builds.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and ship secure, reliable backend services and APIs that back up and restore customer data at scale
• Ship production-grade software with AI as a core part of the development workflow, using AI tools to deliver secure, optimized and high-quality code
• Design systems where AI agents work within human workflows and help maintain the shared system context (designs, constraints, standards) that keeps AI output accurate and reliable
• Review code, whether written by a person or by AI, for correctness, quality, security and performance, and mentor teammates

Required profile

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in an object-oriented language such as Java, Python, Scala, C# or Go, with services owned in production
• Degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Experience building SaaS products on a public cloud (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud)
• AI-first engineering approach: daily use of tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex or Cursor, with structured prompting that produces reliable, secure, production-ready output

Required skills

• Solid SQL and database skills
• Preferred: container orchestration and large-scale data processing frameworks (Kubernetes, Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, AWS Athena)
• Preferred: distributed systems (queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven design)
• Preferred: backup, recovery, data protection or other data-management systems
• Preferred: AI or agent-based features, or leading designs and mentoring other engineers