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Lead Backend Engineer, Product (Fileforce)
Salesforce INC · 🇺🇸 California - San Francisco
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 1,544 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 498 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Salesforce INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles8 certified filings for “Product Security Engineer” (Information Security Analysts) in CA: $178k–$233k, median $208k. Most were filed at wage level III (50%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Last confirmed live 2 days agoWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 1,544 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 498 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. Role Description: Salesforce has immediate opportunities for Lead software engineers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users. We pride ourselves on writing high-quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier. We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while encouraging everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves. As a Lead Software Engineer, your job responsibilities will include: Envision and Build new and exciting components/frameworks in distributed filesystems in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency. Design and Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by millions of users of our cloud platform. Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud distributed filesystem environment, Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team Job Duties: • Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs. Update software or enhance existing software capabilities. • Contribute to the success of the scrum team through code reviews, deployment process automation, documentation, refinement, planning, and retros. • Lead, collaborate, communicate, and mentor others on the team and in the company. • Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver a roadmap to meet shared business goals. • Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system scalability, robustness, and availability. • Troubleshoot issues with the services that team develops and owns. • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to keep services operational and highly available. • Create, maintain, and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team members. Required Skills: • Mastery in Systems design & Mastery of programming language(s) and platforms 8+ years of software development experience. • Deep knowledge of designing distributed filesystems in both on-prem & cloud. • Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, Python along with Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgress/Trino/). • Experience with developing SAAS products over public cloud infrastructure - AWS/Azure/GCP. • Proven experience in designing and developing distributed systems at scale. - Proficiency in queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution, along with a deep understanding of relational database and non-relational databases. • A deeper understanding of software development best practices and demonstrate leadership skills. Preferred Skills: • Design patterns & Experience with Big-Data/ML and S3 Hands-on experience with Streaming technologies like Kafka Experience with Elastic Sea