Director, Software Engineering

Salesforce; Washington; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a visionary Director of Engineering to lead the Experience Artifact Platform and Files Platform teams. You will mentor Engineering Managers, drive architecture and delivery, and partner with Product and GTM to align quarterly goals.

The role emphasizes high operational rigor, measurable SLAs, and scalable systems. You will own cross-functional delivery from PRD to production and foster a high-trust culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years at the Director level managing multiple teams and managers.
• Proven track record delivering complex software programs.

Responsibilities

• Own multi-quarter technical roadmaps and secure buy-in from cross-functional stakeholders.
• Identify resourcing gaps, architectural risks, and blockers with mitigation plans.
• Represent the engineering organization in senior stakeholder meetings with technical context.
• Mentor and delegate to Engineering Managers and Leaders to run autonomous domains.
• Drive organization-wide performance with gap analyses and remediation plans for underperformers.

Skills

Strategic leadership

People management

Cross-functional collaboration

Engineering delivery

Software architecture

Mentoring

Job description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Software Engineering

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.

The Experience

The Experience Artifact Platform (EAP) organization serves as the core deployment and management engine for Salesforce's multi-framework applications and the agentic Headless Experience Layer.

Within this broader organization, your team will act as the crucial connective tissue, owning the middle-tier services that power these headless experiences. This includes driving the global branding architecture for all agentic interactions across our multi-framework offerings. Beyond these forward-looking initiatives, your group will also operate, maintain, and scale the Salesforce Files Platform-the large scale, foundational service supporting every line of business across the entire Salesforce ecosystem.

We are seeking a visionary and operationally rigorous Director of Engineering to lead and scale a multi-layered engineering group dedicated to building robust, high-impact platforms.

• Lead and Mentor the Team: Develop your organization by establishing clear growth paths, empowering Engineering Managers and Engineering Leaders to operate autonomously, and cultivating top engineering talent.
• Build a High-Trust, High-Standards Culture: Foster an environment of high operational rigor and open communication, providing your team with clear strategic context and ensuring seamless visibility across the broader organization.
• Drive Delivery and Execution: Commit to ambitious quarterly goals with precise milestones, maintain predictable delivery timelines, and proactively navigate complex cross-functional dependencies.
• Set Technical Strategy and Architecture: Guide engineers with clear architectural direction, deeply vet technical designs, and secure alignment with stakeholders on long-term technical investments.
• Own Reliability and Operational Excellence: Uphold exceptional standards for system performance, SLA compliance, and incident response, driving continuous improvements in platform resiliency at scale.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

• Own and synthesize multi-quarter technical roadmaps, securing buy-in and alignment from cross-functional stakeholders in Product, Go-To-Market, and overarching Engineering leadership.
• Proactively identify resourcing gaps, architectural risks, and timeline blockers, presenting fully researched mitigation plans before escalations occur.
• Represent the engineering organization in high-level stakeholder and business unit meetings with accuracy, executive presence, and deep technical context.
• Manage, mentor, and delegate effectively to Engineering Managers and Engineering Leaders, transitioning them into fully autonomous leaders who can independently run their agile ceremonies and represent their respective domains.
• Proactively manage organizational performance by conducting continuous gap analyses, identifying top performers for advanced technical challenges, and executing structured remediation plans for underperformers.
• Own the downward communication of strategic shifts, organizational changes, and roadmaps, ensuring your engineers have clear context and connection to the broader business goals.
• Build, implement, and hold teams accountable to rigorous, scalable systems for SLA compliance, bug hygiene, and incident management (RCAs).
• Drive complex, cross-functional project deliveries from initial PRD through production rollout, defining exact delivery dates and ensuring on-time execution.
• Establish unified dashboarding and standardized reporting metrics across all your teams to integrate with broader organizational standards, moving the team from reactive firefighting to predictable delivery.
• Provide proactive, highly accurate visibility into your teams' sprint deliverables, capacity constraints, and blockers without requiring prompting or chasing from executive leadership.
• Maintain a high standard of technical and leadership communication, ensuring that all status updates, timeline shifts, and technical justifications are thoroughly vetted before being presented.

You're Our Person If...

• Experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years at the Director level managing multiple teams and managing managers.
• Scale & Reliability: P