Senior Engineering Manager, AI-Driven Platform & Security

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off programs

Medical/dental/vision

Mental health support

401(k)

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a dynamic engineering leader to own the Salesforce Management Plane (SFMP), a framework built on safe-change principles that enables on-demand Day 2 production operations through REST APIs with guardrails and auditability.

You will mentor a distributed team of eight engineers, champion security-first ownership, drive observability, incident response and compliance metrics, and partner with Product to shape the SFMP roadmap and auto-discovery of service instances.

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.

Responsibilities

• Champion AI-driven development practices and agentic workflows, helping engineers multiply velocity.
• 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 metrics for adoption, production-access reductions, and system reliability.

Skills

Production ops

REST APIs

Security & access control

RBAC

Least privilege

AI-native tools (LLMs)

Cross-functional comms

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a dynamic engineering leader to own the Salesforce Management Plane (SFMP), a framework built on safe-change principles that enables on-demand Day 2 production operations through REST APIs with guardrails and auditability.

You will mentor a distributed team of eight engineers, champion security-first ownership, drive observability, incident response and compliance metrics, and partner with Product to shape the SFMP roadmap and auto-discovery of service instances.