Principal Software Engineer

About the company

• Salesloft is building a Predictive Revenue System, enabling humans and AI to work together.
• The role is part of the AI Platform team, owning the design and build-out of the AI Context Layer.

Responsibilities

• Embed with feature teams to understand their needs from the context layer and drive the platform roadmap
• Build the technical vision and roadmap for the Context Layer: knowledge graph, RAG engines, and retrieval/search infrastructure
• Design and own the access control and RBAC model for the context layer
• Define and evolve the APIs, SDKs, and developer interfaces
• Identify data platform dependencies and work with data engineering
• Drive architecture discussions, design and code reviews
• Address governance and security requirements around data access, lineage, and auditability
• Contribute to hiring and internal documentation

Requirements

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience with focus on data-layer or search/retrieval infrastructure
• Proven experience designing and building knowledge graphs and/or large-scale retrieval and search systems in production
• Deep expertise in RAG architectures, vector databases, and embedding-based retrieval
• Strong understanding of access control and RBAC design in multi-tenant environments
• Experience designing developer-facing APIs and SDKs
• Familiarity with data governance, lineage, and auditability requirements
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction across multiple teams