Senior Engineering Manager, AI-Driven Platform Ops

salesforce.com, inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off programs

Medical

Dental

Vision

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchasing program

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to own the Salesforce Management Plane (SFMP) and lead a distributed team of eight engineers. You will drive safe-change operations via REST APIs, enforce least-privilege security, and partner with Product to shape the SFMP roadmap.

You will mentor engineers, emphasize security-first ownership, observability, and compliance while delivering mission-critical tooling used across Salesforce to operate safely and at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering management experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Proven track record leading platform, infrastructure, or developer-tools teams with end-to-end ownership.
• Strong technical grounding in production operations, REST API platforms, and security and access control, including RBAC and least-privilege principles.
• Effective communicator across technical, product, and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Champion AI-driven development practices and agentic workflows, helping every engineer multiply velocity through hybrid human-AI development.
• Partner with Product to drive the SFMP roadmap, including auto-discovery of service instances, operation-level access control, a central invocation engine, safe-change compliance, and multi-target execution.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of eight engineers, cultivating a culture of security-first ownership and operational excellence.
• Champion observability, incident response, and compliance rigor, tracking key metrics for adoption, reduction in production-access requests, and system reliability.

Skills

Engineering management

Security leadership

Observability

Communication

Education

Advanced degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

RBAC

REST API platforms

Job description

Salesforce is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to own the Salesforce Management Plane (SFMP) and lead a distributed team of eight engineers. You will drive safe-change operations via REST APIs, enforce least-privilege security, and partner with Product to shape the SFMP roadmap.

You will mentor engineers, emphasize security-first ownership, observability, and compliance while delivering mission-critical tooling used across Salesforce to operate safely and at scale.