Software Engineering Associate

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Job Category: Software Engineering

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Job Description: Software Engineering Associate

Want your line of code to have a significant and measurable positive impact for users, the company’s bottom line, and industry? Join Salesforce and define the future of cloud computing. We deliver a scalable, high performance cloud computing platform that delights our customers, and is used by millions of people around the world each day for their business. You will be working with a group of world-class engineers to build breakthrough features that our customers will love, adopt and use while keeping our trusted platform stable and scalable. The Software Engineering Associate role at Salesforce encompasses architecture, design, implementation, and testing to ensure we build products right and release them with high quality.

We are looking for the best and brightest college graduates to join our team of world class, highly motivated software engineers and cloud computing experts. You will have a chance to be mentored and network with senior levels at Salesforce, and be a part of a year long graduate program with various targeted events throughout the year.

From Marketing Cloud to Service Cloud, Platform to IoT, Einstein Platform, Security and everything in between we have many opportunities available across various applications and platforms. Apply now and we look forward to reaching out to you with opportunities that fit your background and interests!

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, implement, test and deliver highly scalable products
• Master our development process, culture and code base, then improve it
• Work closely with a team of engineers, product managers, user experience experts and performance engineers to build new features our customers will love, adopt and use while keeping our trusted platform stable and scalable
• Develop test strategies, design automation frameworks, write unit/functional tests to drive up code coverage and automation metrics
• Analyze, design and develop test cases and implement automated test suites

Required Skills

• Strong background in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline.
• Must be located in North America
• Academic, professional or internship experience working in a professional coding setting environment
• Fluency in object-oriented programming/design
• Academic, professional or internship experience in one of Java, Python, Javascript, HTML, SQL or C++

Desired Skills

• Experience using and critically reviewing code and artifacts generated by large language model (LLM) coding assistants and agentic tools
• Ability to to effectively guide AI tools to achieve desired outcomes
• Experience using Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini or other agent-based frameworks
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Team-player with the ability to work effectively and efficiently with others
• Be a self-starter and possess strong sense of self-motivation
• Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence

Key skills/competency

• Software Architecture
• Scalable Systems
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Cloud Computing
• Test Automation
• Java
• Python
• AI/LLM Tools
• Problem Solving
• Team Collaboration