Senior Director, Software Engineering - Sandbox

Salesforce•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a technically strong, collaborative leader to lead and transform its Sandbox engineering organization. Sandboxes enable Salesforce customers to build, test, and ship safely and support a product line valued at more than $1 billion. The role leads a distributed organization of approximately 25 engineers and engineering managers, with a focus on quality, reliability, and technology that supports customers’ rapid iteration and agentic development needs. The Senior Director owns the organization’s end-to-end services, roadmap execution, development, performance, reliability, and capacity. They directly manage and develop engineering managers and individual contributors, build a strong leadership bench, and work with product management and cross-functional partners to set priorities and deliver the product. The role also provides technical vision and guidance, develops people, and drives engineering excellence and greater adoption of AI-assisted development and operations.

Requirements

A related technical degree.
At least 8 years leading software engineering teams, including at least 3 years managing managers.
Proven record of technical execution.
Experience leading large-scale distributed systems.
Demonstrated success 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, organizational, and time-management skills, including the ability to present strategy and trade-offs to executives.
Ability to be flexible, proactive, and comfortable working with minimal specifications and shifting priorities.
Working experience with software engineering best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous integration, build processes, testing, and operations.

Responsibilities

Own and be accountable for the Sandbox engineering organization, including end-to-end service ownership, development, performance, reliability, capacity, and roadmap execution.
Directly manage and develop engineering managers and individual contributors across a distributed team.
Hire, grow, and retain managers and senior engineers; develop future leaders and ensure management coverage does not depend on a single person.
Drive roadmap execution and delivery in collaboration with product management, architects, UX, support, and partner teams.
Make critical product decisions through technical vision and influence.
Own reliability and performance at very large scale.
Partner with product management on objectives, priorities, trade-offs, and risk, and ensure teams have clear priorities and adequate resources.
Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring; maintain morale and motivate teams.
Drive continued and deeper adoption of AI-assisted development and AI-driven operations.
Promote a culture of engineering excellence and accountability.