Senior Director, Software Engineering - Sandbox

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

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

What You'll Be Doing & Why It Matters

Salesforce is looking for a technically strong, energetic, highly collaborative, and passionate leader to lead and transform our Sandbox engineering organization. Sandboxes are how every Salesforce customer builds, tests, and ships safely, and are the infrastructure behind a $1B+ product line. You will lead a distributed organization of about 25 engineers and engineering managers, keep quality and reliability front and center, and shape the technology for a world where our customers need environments for rapid iteration agentic development. We work in a collaborative environment, and we value open communication and feedback, code reviews, and making learning fun!

Core Responsibilities & Scope

• Ownership and accountability for the Sandbox engineering organization including end to end service ownership, development, performance, reliability, capacity, and executing against our roadmap
• Directly manage and develop both engineering managers and individual contributors across a distributed team
• Build a strong leadership bench: hire, grow, and retain managers and senior engineers, develop future leaders, and make sure there is no single point of failure in management coverage
• Drive the execution and delivery of the roadmap by collaborating with product management, architects, UX, support, and partner teams
• Make critical decisions that determine the success of the product through your technical vision and influence
• Own reliability and performance at a very large scale
• Partner with product management on objectives, priorities, trade-offs, and risk; ensure teams have clear priorities and adequate resources
• Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring; maintain high morale and motivate teams to go above and beyond
• Drive continued and deepening adoption of AI-assisted development and driven operationsabs\lfont>