Senior Director, Sandbox Engineering & AI Platform

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. in San Francisco seeks a technically strong, energetic leader to guide and transform our Sandbox engineering organization.

You will oversee end-to-end service ownership, performance, reliability, and capacity for a $1B+ product line, directing a distributed team of about 25 engineers and managers while fostering open communication, learning, and high morale. You will shape the technical roadmap, hire and grow leaders, mentor teams, and ensure robust leadership coverage.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a large engineering organization and managing managers.
• Strong ability to shape technical vision and roadmap.
• Proven track record in reliability and performance at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end service ownership, development, performance, reliability and capacity for Sandbox engineering.
• Directly manage and develop both engineering managers and individual contributors across a distributed team.
• Build leadership bench: hire, grow, and retain managers and senior engineers; ensure coverage.
• Drive roadmap execution in collaboration with product management, architects, UX, support, and partner teams.
• Make critical technical decisions shaping the product success through vision and influence.
• Own reliability and performance at a very large scale.
• Partner with product management on objectives, priorities, and resources; ensure clear priorities.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and maintain high morale to motivate teams.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development and resilient operations.

Skills

Technical leadership

Distributed team management

AI-assisted development

Code reviews

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. in San Francisco seeks a technically strong, energetic leader to guide and transform our Sandbox engineering organization.

You will oversee end-to-end service ownership, performance, reliability, and capacity for a $1B+ product line, directing a distributed team of about 25 engineers and managers while fostering open communication, learning, and high morale. You will shape the technical roadmap, hire and grow leaders, mentor teams, and ensure robust leadership coverage.