Director - Software Engineering at Salesforce – California - San Francisco | Jobyssey

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Software Engineering

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About 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? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

The Experience:

The Salesforce Edge service provides a secure and compliant mechanism for this global user base to achieve better performance. In addition to the ingress services, the Edge team is also responsible for the egress gateways that provide security and visibility into connections that go out of the data center.

We are looking for a people leader who can manage and drive the team doing the design and implementation of the service. We intend to transform our current software stack to adopt more cloud native primitives to build a more reliable, scalable, and feature-rich delivery platform. Our software stack is based on leading open source software projects like Nginx. The opportunities to enhance the capabilities of the OSS software and contribute back to the community are immense. We are looking to add experienced leader in distributed systems engineers who is passionate, hungry for new challenges, can step up and help deliver on that vision.

What You'll Actually Be Doing:

Experience managing team of passionate engineer including recruitment
Experience and passion for service ownership, building reliable/self-healing services.
Experience working in a complex team environment. Able to deliver under pressure and dependency constraints.
Experience building large scale distributed systems, especially in cloud environments
Familiar with public cloud services with AWS and Google Cloud Platform •
Good knowledge with network technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, HTTP proxies, etc.
Experience at Scrum or other agile development methodologies, with attention to code quality, delivering secure code
You have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt.
Excited by building reliable, self-healing services on unreliable hardware.
Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple datacenters.
Capable of driving and delivering thin slices of end-to-end functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops.

You're Our Person If:

9+ years of experience with at least 4 years of management experience
Experience with Golang, Java and/or C++ in a Linux/UNIX data center environment
Experience with live site / production service ownership
Experience with distributed system design
Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a mission critical service
Experience with Agile development methodology and Test-Driven Development
Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence

Even Better If:

Experience with Networking - TCP, TLS, DNS

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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, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do 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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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.

The typical base salary range for this position is $197,300 - $313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $237,700 - $344,700 annually.

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

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