Salesforce Platform Lead — Remote & Portland

Vacatia; Portland (OR); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Vacatia seeks an Engineering Manager, Salesforce to lead a critical Salesforce platform team in Portland, OR or fully remote within the United States. You will manage engineers and administrators, balance hands-on contributions with leadership, and partner with business leaders to deliver scalable solutions.

You are a strong communicator who translates complex requirements into practical Salesforce implementations, drives DevOps practices, and mentors a high-performing team to improve

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with hands-on development.
• 4+ years managing Salesforce engineering teams, including developers/administrators.
• Deep Salesforce expertise across Apex, SOQL, LWC, Flow, security and data model.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Salesforce engineers and administrators through coaching, performance management, career development, hiring, and onboarding.
• Partner with the Platform Operations Manager and Salesforce Technical Architect to prioritize work, manage capacity, and deliver predictable outcomes.
• Remain hands-on by contributing to approximately 25% of a normal engineering cycle.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate complex needs into practical, scalable Salesforce solutions.
• Champion engineering best practices including code review, testing, source-driven development, and documentation.
• Help improve platform reliability, reduce technical debt, and strengthen engineering practices across the team.
• Serve as an escalation point for incidents and support blameless postmortems and continuous improvement.
• Ensure work is appropriately captured, prioritized, and visible across the team.

Skills

Salesforce

Leadership

DevOps

Apex/SOQL

CI/CD

Stakeholder communication

Hands-on engineering

Tools

SFDX

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Vacatia seeks an Engineering Manager, Salesforce to lead a critical Salesforce platform team in Portland, OR or fully remote within the United States. You will manage engineers and administrators, balance hands-on contributions with leadership, and partner with business leaders to deliver scalable solutions.

You are a strong communicator who translates complex requirements into practical Salesforce implementations, drives DevOps practices, and mentors a high-performing team to improve