- Company: Salesforce
- Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Salary: Pay not listed
Salesforce at a glance
salesforce.com- Founded 1999
- Employees 767
- Ticker CRM
Federal funding recipient: largest known award $2K from the Department of State (started Jan 11, 2023) — via USAspending.gov
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54,401 employees covered under a retirement plan (2024 filing) — via DOL Form 5500 / EFAST2
Registered as a global legal entity (LEI RCGZFPDMRW58VJ54VR07, US) — via GLEIF
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) is a San Francisco–based cloud software company founded in 1999. It is best known for CRM and related apps delivered as SaaS, spanning sales, service, marketing, commerce, analytics, AI, and app development (salesforce.com).
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Salesforce — Auckland, New Zealand
The Opportunity
We are seeking a talented Software Architect to join our dynamic team at Salesforce in Auckland. As a key member of our engineering organization, you will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable, secure, and efficient software solutions that drive customer success.
Core Duties
- Design and architect complex systems using cutting-edge technologies
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
- Work closely with other engineers and stakeholders to ensure successful project completion within time and cost constraints
- Develop and maintain software documentation for system architecture, design patterns, and best practices
What We're Looking For
- A minimum of 8 years of experience in software development with a focus on architectural design
- Strong knowledge of cloud-based architectures and microservices
- Experience with modern programming languages such as Java, Python, or C#
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etc.
- A passion for technology and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
About the Company
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. At Salesforce, you will work alongside some of the brightest minds in technology and make a positive impact on millions of customers worldwide.
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- Salesforce Down 6% in Three Months: Should Investors Retain the Stock? - Yahoo Finance
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Working in Auckland, New Zealand
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Auckland is New Zealand’s largest metro on the North Island, with roughly 1.5M urban residents and a wider region of about 1.8M (mid-2025 figures). The listing points to the Waitematā / Viaduct–City Centre waterfront area.
Auckland is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about 1,547,200. It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of 1,816,000 as of June 2025. It is the most populous city of New Zealand and the fifth-
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National unemployment rate in New Zealand: 5.1% — via World Bank
GDP per capita in New Zealand: $49,591 — via World Bank
Consumer price inflation in New Zealand: 2.8% (annual) — via World Bank
Real GDP growth in New Zealand: 0.5% (annual) — via World Bank
Average hours worked per year in New Zealand: 1,723 — via OECD
Recent seismic activity: 2 earthquakes (M4.5+) within 200km in the last 6 months — largest M4.7 near 100 km ENE of Pauanui, New Zealand. via USGS
- Elevation 2m (7 ft)
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About this role & career path
O*NET groups this work under Software Developers (15-1252.00). Core tasks include analyzing needs, planning installs or upgrades, consulting stakeholders on design and status, and coordinating system installation—skills that map well to enterprise SaaS architecture.
Traits that fit this role
- Innovation
- Adaptability
- Achievement Orientation
- Intellectual Curiosity
- Attention to Detail
Source: O*NET Work Styles (Distinctiveness Rank).
Typical preparation needed: Job Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not. — via O*NET
Industry news
- The Great Coding Reset: How AI is changing software engineering - Business Insider
- ‘AI code apocalypse’ hasn’t hit engineers as hard as the industry may think - IT Brew
- I was a software engineer who couldn't get excited about AI. Now I'm studying to be a nurse. - Business Insider
Source: O*NET (public-domain bulk data)
Salary & compensation
Workers in Computer & Mathematical occupations earn a national median of $98,769 — via US Census ACS / Data USA
Build the skills for this role
- freeCodeCamp — Full Stack curriculum (free)
- Saylor Academy — Computer Science courses (free)
- CS50 (Harvard, via edX) (free to learn)
- Microsoft Learn — developer training paths (free to learn)
Free & low-cost learning resources
- freeCodeCamp — Full Stack curriculum (free)
- Saylor Academy — Computer Science courses (free)
- CS50 (Harvard, via edX) (free to learn)
- Microsoft Learn — developer training paths (free to learn)
- Walk through designing a multi-tenant SaaS feature under cost/time constraints.
- Explain how you gather requirements from product, ops, and engineers.
- Describe coordinating a production install or migration with clear interfaces and rollback thinking.
Watch & learn
Video via YouTube.
Strong match if you enjoy enterprise cloud architecture, stakeholder-driven design, and CRM/platform ecosystems. On-site in Auckland (not remote); expect collaboration-heavy design work over pure coding.
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Listing facts
- Role Software Architect
- Employer Salesforce
- Location Auckland, New Zealand
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted July 27, 2026
- Apply by August 26, 2026
- Country New Zealand
- Overview Full job description on this page (255 words)
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Typical work in Software Architect
Independent occupational context from O*NET (U.S. public-domain labor data). This is about the occupation, not a rewrite of this employer's posting.
- Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan installation of a new system or modification of an existing system.
- Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
- Confer with data processing or project managers to obtain information on limitations or capabilities for data processing projects.
- Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
- Consult with customers or other departments on project status, proposals, or technical issues, such as software system design or maintenance.
- Coordinate installation of software system.
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