Head of Data Engineering & AI Platforms

salesforce.com, inc.; Atlanta (GA); 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 organization and own the full data engineering stack—from ingestion to data products and AI-facing data services. You'll partner with Data Science & Analytics as a strategic peer to drive a bold vision for agentic analytics and AI-powered data tooling.

You will transform Slack's data platform into a best-in-class substrate for both human analysts and AI agents, setting SLAs, cost controls, and building a strong

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data platform, or infrastructure engineering roles.
• 5+ years in engineering leadership at the Director level or above.
• Proven track record building and scaling data platforms at SaaS scale.
• Experience leading through organizational change and multi-team integrations.
• Demonstrated success partnering with Data Science / Analytics leadership.
• Strong track record hiring and developing engineering leaders.
• Excellent cross-functional communication with executives.
• Related technical degree required.

Responsibilities

• Own and unify the Data Engineering roadmap across infrastructure, ingestion, data governance, tooling, and semantic layers.
• DRI for data engineering; represent in leadership planning and resolve cross-team conflicts.
• Partner with Data Science & Analytics organization to run an effective operating model.
• Set data freshness SLAs, warehouse reliability, and cost optimization standards.
• Build and scale engineering capacity by hiring and mentoring top EMs and senior ICs.
• Champion a strong data engineering identity and culture.
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and DevXP on cross-cutting initiatives.

Skills

Data engineering

Leadership

Data platform

Cross-functional collaboration

SaaS experience

OpenTelemetry

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

OpenTelemetry GenAI

MCP servers

Airflow-like orchestration

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director of Data Engineering to lead a ~40-person organization and own the full data engineering stack—from ingestion to data products and AI-facing data services. You'll partner with Data Science & Analytics as a strategic peer to drive a bold vision for agentic analytics and AI-powered data tooling.

You will transform Slack's data platform into a best-in-class substrate for both human analysts and AI agents, setting SLAs, cost controls, and building a strong