Senior Director, Software Engineering - Sandbox

Salesforce•San Francisco, CA

4d•$218,400 - $401,400

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 exceeding $1 billion. The role leads a distributed organization of approximately 25 engineers and engineering managers, with responsibility for quality, reliability, and technology direction as customers need environments for rapid iteration and agentic development. The Senior Director owns the organization’s end-to-end service delivery, including development, performance, reliability, capacity, and roadmap execution. The role works closely with product management, architects, UX, support, and partner teams, and sets technical direction while developing managers and engineers. Salesforce describes its engineering environment as collaborative, with open communication, feedback, code reviews, and a focus on learning.

Requirements

A related technical degree.
At least 8 years leading software engineering teams, including at least 3 years managing managers, with a 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.
Build a strong leadership bench by hiring, growing, and retaining managers and senior engineers, developing future leaders, and ensuring management coverage has no single point of failure.
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; ensure teams have clear priorities and adequate resources.
Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring, and maintain morale and motivation.
Drive continued and deeper adoption of AI-assisted development and AI-driven operations.
Promote a culture of engineering excellence and accountability.