Senior Director, Software Engineering - Sandbox

Momentum; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a technically strong, energetic leader to head the Sandbox engineering organization. The team comprises about 25 engineers and managers distributed across locations, focusing on reliability, capacity, and end-to-end service ownership for sandbox environments used to build, test, and ship customer solutions.

You will hire, grow, and retain managers and senior engineers, drive roadmap execution with product management, and push AI-assisted development and high-performance

Qualifications

• A related technical degree is required.
• 8+ years leading software engineering teams, including 3+ years managing managers.
• Experience leading large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams across time zones.
• Strong verbal and written communication to executives.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and driven operations.
• Experience with software engineering best practices like CI, testing, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end sandbox engineering org including roadmap ownership, development, performance, reliability, capacity, and roadmap execution.
• Directly manage and develop both engineering managers and individual contributors across a distributed team.
• Build a strong leadership bench by hiring, growing, and retaining managers and senior engineers; ensure coverage.
• Drive roadmap delivery by collaborating with product management, architects, UX, support, and partner teams.
• Make critical decisions that determine product success through technical vision and influence.
• Own reliability and performance at a very large scale.
• Partner with product management on objectives, priorities, trade-offs, and resource plans.
• Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring; maintain high morale.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development and driven operations.
• Foster culture of engineering excellence and accountability.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Managing managers

Distributed systems

Leadership development

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Adaptability

Engineering best practices

Education

Related technical degree

Job description

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