Director - Software Engineering - Data

The Salesforce Cloud Economics and Capacity Management (CECM) team is looking for an Engineering Leader with experience of building Data Applications and passions for enabling software efficiency to join us!

You will be leading self-organizing engineering teams to build the features that our internal customers will love, adopt and use - all while ensuring stable and scalable applications. You will be partnering with engineers, product managers, internal customers, data scientists, and architects to innovate and deliver analytics solutions using Big Data, Backend and Visualization technologies. You'll be developing modern, lean, self-governing product engineering teams that enable FinOps Capabilities for Salesforce users and efficient, responsible use of Salesforce infrastructure resources.

Our organization develops intelligent, data driven products which enable Salesforce Engineers, FinOps Analysts, and executives to identify, triage, and remediate infrastructure cost and utilization incidents at Salesforce scale across multiple cloud providers. We apply data engineering techniques to turn the petabytes of data generated by our global infrastructure into actionable predictions and business insights used by capacity planners, internal service owners, and technical leaders daily. As an internal products team, engineers are expected to directly interact with customers to develop requirements and design, release and maintain distributed systems with visibility throughout Salesforce.

Your Impact :

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

Desired Skills :

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

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