Sr. Director Engineering

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Software Engineering

Job Details

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Salesforce is looking for technically strong, upbeat, highly collaborative, and hard-working senior leader to lead our software engineering team which will build and enhance our Machine Learning foundations. You will use your experience in the areas of ML and support a team of outstanding developers while keeping quality in mind. This is an opportunity to buid something new and exciting which will meaningfully underlay and enhance a range of Salesforce most successful products. We work in a collaborative environment, and we value open communication and feedback, code reviews, and making learning fun!

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Salesforce AI Cloud leaders to define and refine the strategy and roadmap

• Lead the planning, development and maintenance of high-quality and highly available systems in which ML models live

• Partner with Product Managers, Technical Program Managers to closely track progress across multiple workstreams and delivering goals for varying stakeholders

• Retain top talent within the teams; hire top talents; invest in continuous employee development of successful teams and have a passion for team and team members’ success

• Effectively communicate and cultivate collaboration in the team

• Identify opportunities and improvements in the processes and culture of the teams and the larger engineering organization

Required Skills:

• Proven track record leading software engineering teams with a distinguished track record on technically fast paced projects

• Experience leading large scale distributed systems, working with microservices and/or distributed architecture

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and project management skills. Ability to work effectively in a distributed team setting

• Ability to be flexible, proactive, comfortable working with minimal specifications

• Experience with short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and experience developing products from scratch

• Experience in hiring, mentoring and leading engineers

• Working experience of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build processes, testing, and operations

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and product management to understand requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs

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