Senior Director, Client Infrastructure & Architecture

Salesforce, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to own the Application Architecture and Systems pillar for Slack's client infrastructure across web, desktop, and mobile. You will lead a large, distributed team of managers and ICs, setting a bold technical vision and partnering with Product and Design to drive the roadmap.

This role demands building high-performing, accessible platforms and shaping engineering culture in the era of AI and agentic development.

Qualifications

• Experience leading product infrastructure engineering at a large-scale company.
• Experience in client infrastructure (web/mobile a plus).
• Track record of leading large engineering organizations, including managers.
• Ability to define technical strategy and translate it into a roadmap with Product/Design.
• Hold teams to high performance, reliability, and quality standards.
• Collaborate across functions without direct authority.
• Related technical degree required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering org across web, desktop, and mobile; hire and develop managers.
• Define and drive the multi-year technical vision and roadmap for Slack's client infrastructure.
• Set high standards for performance, reliability, quality, and craft.
• Reshape development for the agentic era; accelerate delivery with AI coding agents.
• Own shared platforms: frameworks, design-system foundations, and internal APIs.
• Champion accessibility across Slack products.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering across Slack and Salesforce.
• Build a connected, global, hybrid team.
• In first 60–90 days, assess the org, set strategy, raise technical excellence.

Skills

Lead large eng org

Client infrastructure

Set technical strategy

Manage managers

Cross-functional collaboration

Related technical degree

Education

Technical degree

Tools

Electron

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to own the Application Architecture and Systems pillar for Slack's client infrastructure across web, desktop, and mobile. You will lead a large, distributed team of managers and ICs, setting a bold technical vision and partnering with Product and Design to drive the roadmap.

This role demands building high-performing, accessible platforms and shaping engineering culture in the era of AI and agentic development.