Director - Software Engineering - GCP

Software Engineering Role At Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword—it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Salesforce and Google Cloud have embarked on a groundbreaking partnership worth $2.5 billion to revolutionize customer relationship management (CRM) through advanced artificial intelligence (AI). By integrating Google's Gemini AI models into Salesforce's Agentforce platform, we're enabling businesses to harness multi-modal AI capabilities—processing images, audio, and video—to deliver unparalleled customer experiences. You will have the unique opportunity to work at the forefront of IDP, AI and cloud computing and contribute to enabling a full suite of Salesforce applications on Google Cloud.

Our Public Cloud engineering teams are responsible for innovating and maintaining a large scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features to production for tens of millions of users across all industries every day. Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship. You will need deep experience of delivering large scale systems, and experience of owning service at very high scale in efficient and automated way.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the vision of enabling a full suite of Salesforce applications on Google Cloud in collaboration with teams across geographies
• Manage, hire and nurture world class team to deliver cloud frameworks, infrastructure automation tools, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms
• Drive execution and delivery by collaborating with cross functional teams, architects, product owners and engineers
• Be technically involved and work closely with product owner and architect to build the best in class services and systems at scale
• Encourage ideas, have your point of view and lead with influence
• Make critical decisions, innovate aggressively while managing risk and ensure the success of the product
• Maintaining and fostering our culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals with an eye towards diversity
• Daily management of stand-ups as the ScrumMaster for no more than two engineering teams
• Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical acumen sharp

Experience/Skills required:

• Masters / Bachelors degree required in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Equivalent Experience
• 7 + years leading Software Engineering teams
• Experience leading software development projects with a distinguished track record on technically demanding products which have been released for wider consumption
• Service ownership experience of cloud based distributed services running at B2C scale
• Experience working in scrum/agile development environment. Agile mindset, ability to iterate, take risks and evolve.
• A strong adherent to software engineering best practices which enable building world class products such as unit testing, modular code, right abstractions, continuous integration mindset etc
• Strong data structure and algorithms skills and extensive programming experience, preferably in object oriented languages.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, service mesh and other modern technologies/services on public cloud is desirable

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future—but to redefine what's possible—for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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