Staff Salesforce Engineer

As a Lead Salesforce Engineer, you will own a full life cycle of development and be a lead contributor on a team responsible for the end-to-end delivery of increasingly complex features that are correctly implemented and high quality. You will take initiative to identify and own solutions to problems, and you will partner with cross-functional teams owning requirements that take into account all parties' needs. You will act as a resource by advising and mentoring junior engineers to continue to build the technical capabilities of our teams.
About the Team
The Salesforce Development team plays a critical role in enabling scalable, automated, and reliable business processes across Rapid7. We work cross-functionally with internal stakeholders to build solutions that streamline operations, improve user workflows, and support strategic growth. This is a high-impact opportunity to deepen your Salesforce expertise, influence enterprise-grade projects, and work with a global team in a fast-paced, agile environment.
About the Role
As a Lead Salesforce Engineer on our Business Applications team, you'll play a critical role in designing and building scalable Salesforce solutions that support both our internal teams and customer-facing experiences. You'll collaborate closely with stakeholders across Sales, Support, Customer Success, and Product to implement enhancements that improve automation, data integrity, and operational efficiency across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and CPQ. You'll also contribute to platform governance, architecture, and mentor other engineers as we scale our Salesforce ecosystem.
This is a great opportunity to deepen your Salesforce expertise while working alongside a team of highly skilled engineers - and to have a direct impact on how our internal users and customers experience our solutions. Specifically your focus will be to:

• Build, maintain, and release our well architected services by writing correct and clean code consistently and following best practices and conventions. You will understand and make well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs in your areas of expertise
• Take an active role in the design and planning of upcoming features, our engineers are first class stakeholders in all parts of the development process
• When required, partner with internal teams who work deeply with our platform to ensure we are understanding our customers needs
• Continue to develop a deep understanding of our products in order to support our customers
• Work with Practice specific technologies

The skills and qualities you'll bring include:

• Minimum of 7 years of hands-on Salesforce development experience, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, CPQ, Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows, integrations, and declarative configuration tools
• Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn, with the ability to mentor more junior members of the team
• The attitude and ability to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment
• Collaborative team player who has the ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions
• Strong creative problem solving skills
• Solid communicator with the ability to clearly convey objectives and rationale whilst fostering commitment from others both within the team and cross functionally
• Brings a customer-first mindset to engineering, and integrates customer impact into everyday decision making
• Excellent attention to detail
• Demonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers
• Core Value Embodiment: Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That's because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don't be shy - apply today.
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About Rapid7
At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what's possible and drive extraordinary impact. We're building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.
Protecting 11,000+ customers against bad actors and threats means we're continuing to push the envelope just like we' ve been doing for the past 20 years. If you 're ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we're ready to help you take command of your career. Join us.