Senior Engineering Manager, AI-Driven Platform & Security

Socket.dev; San Francisco (WA, CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking an engineering leader to own the Salesforce Management Plane (SFMP), a REST-based framework enabling safe production changes with guardrails, approvals, and auditability. The role drives least-privilege, zero-touch production and reduces emergency access across the fleet.

You will combine expertise in production operations and security with people-first leadership to deliver mission-critical tooling that service owners rely on to operate safely 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.

Responsibilities

• Champion AI-driven development practices and agentic workflows, helping engineers 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

Platform leadership

REST APIs

RBAC / least-privilege

Communication

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Salesforce is seeking an engineering leader to own the Salesforce Management Plane (SFMP), a REST-based framework enabling safe production changes with guardrails, approvals, and auditability. The role drives least-privilege, zero-touch production and reduces emergency access across the fleet.

You will combine expertise in production operations and security with people-first leadership to deliver mission-critical tooling that service owners rely on to operate safely at scale.