Hybrid Director – Software Engineering, Data

at Salesforce

• Job title: Director – Software Engineering, Data
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $211,500 - $306,600 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Microservices
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Director - Software Engineering leading high-performing software engineering teams for data applications at Salesforce. Collaborating cross-functionally to deliver impactful analytics solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many cross-functional teams, architects, product owners and engineers
• Partner with Product Management to align with objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, and risk
• Develop self-organizing, engaged and high-performing engineering teams
• Ensure the teams have clear priorities and adequate resources
• Facilitate critical decisions that drive the success of internal platforms and products
• Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members’ success
• Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members, including senior engineers and engineering managers
• Advocate for technical excellence, participating in architecture discussions and planning with internal and external engineering teams
• Lead by example, setting the standard Salesforce Values of Trust, Customer Success, Innovation, Equality and Sustainability
• Personally contribute improvements to technology, processes, and products within the team(s) scope, proactively foreseeing and resolving issues before they happen

Requirements

• A related technical degree required
• 5+ years of experience managing high-performing software engineering teams
• 10+ years of personal experience delivering highly trusted engineering services and products
• Interest in leading globally distributed teams, with prior experience hiring and mentoring distributed engineers and engineering managers
• Experience leading distributed systems, primarily big data analytics products and backend microservices
• Compelling verbal and written communication skills with both internal stakeholders and external customers
• Ability to be flexible and proactive, driving clarity while working with minimal or ambiguous specifications
• Experience with agile release cycles, driving excellence across the full software development lifecycle, and experience working on a products and operations for internal consumption
• Proven record driving software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source code management, continuous integration, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience with Agile development methodologies including scrum lead experience

Benefits

• time off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• employee stock purchasing program