Senior Manager Software Engineering Missionforce

Salesforce; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce Hyderabad is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead software engineering teams focused on AI-driven features and large-scale distributed systems. You will mentor engineers, drive delivery, participate in architecture, and partner with product owners to align on priorities and timelines.

The role emphasizes an AI-first approach, prompt engineering, and adoption of modern development practices to build secure, scalable software across cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• AI-first approach to engineering across the stack.
• Experience using AI tools in development workflows.
• Advanced prompt engineering and structured prompts.
• Related technical degree required.
• 3+ years leading software engineering teams on fast-paced projects.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and microservices.
• Strong communication, organization and time management.
• Adaptable, proactive, able to work with minimal specs.
• Experience with short release cycles and full software lifecycle.
• Experience in hiring, mentoring and building teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive feature delivery with cross-functional teams and architects.
• Make critical decisions shaping product success.
• Foresee issues and resolve before they occur.
• Daily stand-ups as Scrum Master for engineering teams.
• Partner with PO to align priorities, tradeoffs, and risk.
• Ensure clear priorities and adequate resources for teams.
• Empower delivery teams to self-coordinate.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers.
• Maintain high morale and drive excellence.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and reviews.

Skills

AI-first engineering

AI tools usage

Prompt engineering

Software architecture

Team leadership

Scrum Master

Distributed systems

Communication

Mentoring

Hiring

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Codex

Cursor

Job description

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

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. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

About Salesforce

We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good- you've come to the right place.

Role Description

The Engineering Manager demonstrates deep business, industry, and product knowledge to ensure the success of our customers by effectively managing a team of Engineers and Architects. In this role, the Engineering Manager will specialize in one or more lines of business, a specific cloud or industry to speak the customer language and ensure customer value realization. They are aligned by cloud strategy, building and encouraging positive relationships to help customers progress on their digital journey.

Salesforce is looking for technically strong, energetic, highly collaborative, and passionate leaders to lead our software engineering teams! You will run and lead a team/teams of outstanding developers and keep quality in mind. We work in a collaborative environment, and we value open communication and feedback, code reviews, and making learning fun!

Your Impact

• Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many multi-functional teams, architects, product owners and engineer
• Make critical decisions that attribute to the success of the product
• Proactive in foreseeing issues and resolving it before it happens
• Daily management of stand-ups as the Scrum Master for engineering teams
• Partner with PO to align with objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, and risk
• Ensuring teams have clear priorities and adequate resources
• Empowering the delivery team to self coordinate
• Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members’ success
• Providing technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members
• Maintaining high morale and motivating the delivery team to go above and beyond
• Vocally advocating for technical excellence and helping the teams make good decisions
• Participating in architecture discussions and planning
• Participating in multi-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams
• Maintaining and encouraging our culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals
• Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.
• Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
• Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.
• Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
• Occasionally chipping in to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical skill sharp

Minimum Requirements

• A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering. Using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.
• Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows.
• Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.
• A related technical degree required
• 3 + years of proven track record leading software engineering teams with a distinguished track record on technically fast paced projects
• Experience leading large scale distributed systems, working with microservices and/or distributed architecture
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time management skills
• Ability to be flexible, proactive, comfortable working with minimal specifications
• Experience with short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and experience working on a product that's been released for public consumption
• Experience in hiring, mentoring and