Senior Engineering Manager, Client Infra (Backend+Frontend)

salesforce.com, inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Sr Engineering Manager to lead two teams of backend and frontend client infrastructure engineers within the Architecture and Systems organization. You will shape the long-term vision and execution strategy, and align with leaders to drive impact.

This role requires a backend or full‑stack background, strong coaching skills, and the ability to balance priorities across engineers, product, and security while improving productivity and code health.

Qualifications

• Coaching and mentoring a team of engineers.
• Experience designing, scaling, and operating backend services and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of API design principles supporting long-lived client contracts.
• Deep knowledge of browsers and frontend technologies.
• High resilience towards uncertainty and conflicting priorities.
• Ability to explain trade-offs regarding service workers, boot frameworks and websockets.
• Ability to make rapid technical decisions in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to set the long term vision and execution strategy by utilizing your technical knowledge
• Define, monitor, and report against quarterly measures for team deliverables
• Represent the team in planning, product, and leadership meetings within the organization and across Slack engineering
• Regularly connect with cross functional partners across Slack engineering to drive alignment and execute against business goals
• Understand opportunities and tradeoffs to including members of the team within product engineering owned initiatives
• Represent and evangelize the opportunities to improve productivity, performance, and code health through a consistently evolving and modern frontend infrastructure
• Mentor, teach, and coach the team while supporting and advocating for the career development and interests of the individuals on the team, including driving promotion readiness and calibration
• Be a key stakeholder and strategic partner in business critical project areas such as security and product
• Champion AI-assisted development practices across the team, and identify opportunities to apply them to both engineering and operational workflows

Skills

Team leadership

Backend systems

API design

Frontend tech

Adaptability

Web technologies

Decision making

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Sr Engineering Manager to lead two teams of backend and frontend client infrastructure engineers within the Architecture and Systems organization. You will shape the long-term vision and execution strategy, and align with leaders to drive impact.

This role requires a backend or full‑stack background, strong coaching skills, and the ability to balance priorities across engineers, product, and security while improving productivity and code health.