Senior Director, Software Engineering - Sandbox

100 Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. seeks a technically strong leader to guide the Sandbox engineering organization, overseeing a distributed team of engineers and managers to deliver reliable, scalable environments used for rapid AI-driven development.

You will shape the technical vision, build leadership, and partner with product, architects, UX, and support to execute the roadmap while driving excellence and accountability across the org.

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading software engineering teams, including 3+ years managing managers.
• Experience building and guiding large distributed systems.
• Strong verbal and written communication and organizational skills.
• Experience implementing coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, testing, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end ownership of the Sandbox engineering org, including service ownership, development, performance, reliability and capacity.
• Directly manage and develop engineering managers and individual contributors across distributed teams.
• Build leadership bench by hiring, growing, and retaining managers and senior engineers; ensure coverage.

Skills

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Communication skills

Software engineering practices

Leadership bench

Adaptability

Education

Related technical degree

Job description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

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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 operations Drive a culture of engineering excellence and accountability

Minimum Requirements

A related technical degree required 8+ years leading software engineering teams, including 3+ years managing managers, with a proven record of technical execution Experience leading large-scale distributed systems Demonstrated success building leadership benches and developing managers and senior engineers Experience leading geographically distributed teams, including time-zone-spanning support models Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time management skills, including presenting strategy and trade-offs to executives Ability to be flexible, proactive, and comfortable working with minimal specifications and through shifting priorities Working experience of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build processes, testing, and operations

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