Head of AI-Driven Data Engineering

salesforce.com, inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director of Data Engineering to lead a ~40-person org and own the full data stack—from ingestion to data products and AI-facing services. You will partner with Data Science & Analytics to drive a bold, agentic data platform vision for Slack.

You will build real-time data products, establish AI-native observability, and steer the MCP strategy to make Salesforce data an accessible, enterprise-grade resource for both analysts and AI agents.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering, data platform, or infrastructure roles.
• 5+ years in engineering leadership at director level or above.
• Proven track record building and scaling data platforms for SaaS.
• Excellent cross-functional communication with executives.

Responsibilities

• Own and unify the Data Engineering roadmap across infrastructure, ingestion, governance, tooling, and semantic layers.
• Serve as the DRI for data engineering, representing data engineering in leadership planning and resolving cross-team priority conflicts.
• Partner directly with the Data Science & Analytics organization - establishing and running an effective operating model.
• Set data freshness SLAs, warehouse reliability, and cost optimization standards across ingestion and infrastructure teams and ensure the data platform meets those standards and goals.
• Build and scale engineering capacity - hire, develop and retain top EM and senior IC talents.
• Champion a strong data engineering identity and culture.
• Partner with product, infrastructure, and DevXP leadership on cross-cutting initiatives.

Skills

Data engineering

Data platform

Engineering leadership

Cross-functional communication

Executive stakeholder communication

Education

Related technical degree

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director of Data Engineering to lead a ~40-person org and own the full data stack—from ingestion to data products and AI-facing services. You will partner with Data Science & Analytics to drive a bold, agentic data platform vision for Slack.

You will build real-time data products, establish AI-native observability, and steer the MCP strategy to make Salesforce data an accessible, enterprise-grade resource for both analysts and AI agents.