Lead Sandbox Engineering for Scale, Reliability & AI

Momentum; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a technically strong, energetic leader to head the Sandbox engineering organization. The team comprises about 25 engineers and managers distributed across locations, focusing on reliability, capacity, and end-to-end service ownership for sandbox environments used to build, test, and ship customer solutions.

You will hire, grow, and retain managers and senior engineers, drive roadmap execution with product management, and push AI-assisted development and high-performance

Qualifications

• A related technical degree is required.
• 8+ years leading software engineering teams, including 3+ years managing managers.
• Experience leading large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams across time zones.
• Strong verbal and written communication to executives.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and driven operations.
• Experience with software engineering best practices like CI, testing, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end sandbox engineering org including roadmap ownership, development, performance, reliability, capacity, and roadmap execution.
• Directly manage and develop both engineering managers and individual contributors across a distributed team.
• Build a strong leadership bench by hiring, growing, and retaining managers and senior engineers; ensure coverage.
• Drive roadmap delivery by collaborating with product management, architects, UX, support, and partner teams.
• Make critical decisions that determine product success through technical vision and influence.
• Own reliability and performance at a very large scale.
• Partner with product management on objectives, priorities, trade-offs, and resource plans.
• Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring; maintain high morale.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development and driven operations.
• Foster culture of engineering excellence and accountability.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Managing managers

Distributed systems

Leadership development

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Adaptability

Engineering best practices

Education

Related technical degree

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a technically strong, energetic leader to head the Sandbox engineering organization. The team comprises about 25 engineers and managers distributed across locations, focusing on reliability, capacity, and end-to-end service ownership for sandbox environments used to build, test, and ship customer solutions.

You will hire, grow, and retain managers and senior engineers, drive roadmap execution with product management, and push AI-assisted development and high-performance