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About the Role
Salesforce is seeking a technically strong, energetic, collaborative, and passionate leader to lead and transform our Sandbox engineering organization. This role is critical as Sandboxes are the infrastructure behind a $1B+ product line, enabling customers to build, test, and ship safely. You will lead a distributed team of approximately 25 engineers and managers, focusing on quality, reliability, and shaping technology for rapid iteration and agentic development.
Responsibilities
- Ownership and accountability for the Sandbox engineering organization, including end-to-end service ownership, development, performance, reliability, and capacity.
- Execution against the product roadmap.
- Directly manage and develop engineering managers and individual contributors across a distributed team.
- Build a strong leadership bench by hiring, growing, and retaining managers and senior engineers.
- Develop future leaders and ensure no single point of failure in management coverage.
- Drive roadmap execution and delivery through collaboration with product management, architects, UX, support, and partner teams.
- Make critical decisions impacting 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 risk.
- Ensure teams have clear priorities and adequate resources.
- Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring.
- Maintain high morale and motivate teams to exceed expectations.
- Drive continued and deepening adoption of AI-assisted development and driven operations.
- Drive a culture of engineering excellence and accountability.
Requirements
- A related technical degree is required.
- 8+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.
- 3+ years of experience managing managers.
- Proven record of technical execution.
- Experience leading large-scale distributed systems.
- Demonstrated success in 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.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Ability to present strategy and trade-offs to executives.
- Flexibility, proactivity, and comfort 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.
Skills
- AI-assisted development
- Agentic development
Location
- Select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area
Work Type
- Distributed team
- Geographically distributed teams
Experience Level
- 8+ years leading software engineering teams
- 3+ years managing managers
Education Level
- A related technical degree
Salary/Compensations
- $218,400 - $365,200 annually
- $263,200 - $401,400 annually in select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area
Benefits
- Time off programs
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Mental health support
- Paid parental leave
- Life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Employee stock purchasing program
About the Company
- Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together.
- The world of work is changing, and Salesforce is looking for Trailblazers passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and upholding Salesforce's core values.
- Agentforce is the future of AI, and the company is looking for individuals to be the future of Salesforce.
Equal Opportunity
- Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment.
- Salesforce believes in equality for all and strives to create an inclusive workplace free from discrimination.
- Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit.
- This policy applies to current and prospective employees and covers all aspects of employment, including recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, performance assessment, discipline, and termination.
- Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.