Lead Software Engineer - FinOps

Salesforce's Cloud Economics and Capacity Management (CECM) team is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their FinOps initiative. This role focuses on building intelligent, data-driven tools for strategic financial operations decision-making related to Salesforce infrastructure expenditure and capacity management. The position involves developing a platform for near real-time monitoring of cloud cost and capacity utilization, helping optimize resource allocation, forecast spending, and minimize costs. The team incorporates advanced machine learning techniques to analyze petabytes of infrastructure data, converting it into actionable predictions and business insights used daily by FinOps practitioners and technical leaders.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about building scalable, resilient, distributed systems that handle massive volumes of cloud cost and usage data. The role requires strong expertise in data architecture, ETL processes, and SQL, along with proven experience working with enterprise metrics to build automated data pipelines. The position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies while directly impacting Salesforce's infrastructure efficiency.

Working in a modern, lean, self-governing FinOps product engineering team, you'll wear multiple hats - from coding to requirements gathering and quality testing. The role involves cross-functional collaboration with engineers, FinOps analysts, and product managers to build features that internal customers will love and adopt. As an internal tooling team member, you'll have direct interaction with customers throughout the development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to system maintenance.

This position offers competitive compensation based on location and experience, comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision coverage, 401(k), and equity opportunities through employee stock purchase programs. The role supports hybrid work arrangements with locations in major tech hubs across California and Washington.