Senior Director, Software Engineering - Slack Application Architecture and Systems

Salesforce•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking an engineering leader to own the shared technical foundations of Slack’s client applications. The Senior Director will lead the Application Architecture and Systems organization, responsible for shared infrastructure, frameworks, accessibility, APIs, and components across Slack’s web, Electron desktop, Android, and iOS applications. These foundations affect the experience of millions of users, and the organization will set standards for client performance, reliability, quality, and feature velocity.

Requirements

Significant experience leading product infrastructure engineering at a company with a complex, large-scale client application.
Experience in client infrastructure; depth in either web or mobile is acceptable, with experience in both considered a plus.
A track record leading large engineering organizations, including managing managers and coaching senior leaders.
Ability to set technical strategy and work with Product and Design to turn it into a roadmap.
Ability to hold teams to high standards for performance, reliability, and quality.
Ability to collaborate across functions without direct authority over all parties.
A related technical degree.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading engineering teams through the shift to AI-assisted and agentic development.
Experience leading distributed teams through organizational change.
Experience with accessibility.
Experience with Electron native desktop applications.
Experience building or scaling design systems.

Responsibilities

Lead the Application Architecture and Systems engineering organization across web, desktop, and mobile.
Hire, develop, and retain engineering managers and senior individual contributors.
Define and drive the multi-year technical vision and roadmap for Slack’s client infrastructure.
Partner with Product counterparts to set strategy and make clear tradeoffs.
Establish high standards for performance, reliability, quality, and engineering craft.
Evolve client development and delivery practices to increase speed without sacrificing quality, including through the use of AI coding agents.
Steward the frameworks, components, design-system foundations, and internal client APIs used by Slack product teams.
Make accessibility a first-class part of how Slack is built.
Collaborate with executive peers in Product, Design, and Engineering across Slack and Salesforce to align priorities and resolve dependencies.
Build a cohesive, high-performing culture across a distributed, hybrid organization.
Assess the organization, set strategy, and improve technical excellence and team performance during the first 60–90 days.