Senior Director of Engineering, Salesforce
Data 360 & VizPlatform Services
$263.2-401.4k
World's leading CRM provider
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World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$263.2-401.4k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- Engineering Leadership: 15+ years of experience leading platform engineering teams with a strong focus on DevOps, CI/CD, and Test Automation in complex data environments
- Salesforce Data Cloud & Tableau Expertise: Deep technical understanding of the Salesforce ecosystem, specifically Data Cloud architecture (DLOs, DMOs, Identity Resolution) and how to optimize it for scale
- Customer Zero Mindset: Proven ability to translate internal operational challenges into clear, actionable product requirements that shape external software roadmaps
- Modern Data Architecture: Experience operationalizing Data Mesh principles, Lakehouse patterns (Iceberg), and Zero-Copy architectures
- Change Agent: A track record of transforming "operations" teams into "platform engineering" teams—moving from ticket-based work to code-based self-service platforms
What the job involves
- Data Platform Services (DPS) is the engineering heartbeat of Salesforce’s internal data ecosystem. We own the Enterprise Data Platform—the unified stack connecting Data 360 (Data Cloud), Snowflake, Tableau, and MuleSoft
- Our mission is to accelerate Salesforce’s evolution into an Agent-first enterprise by building paved paths that allow teams to autonomously build trusted data products. We operate as Customer Zero, pushing our own technology to its absolute limits to prove that a converged, forward-looking architecture drives superior enterprise outcomes
- We are seeking a visionary Sr. Director of Platform Engineering to lead the Data 360 (Data Cloud) and Visualization portfolios
- This is a strategic software engineering role. You will be responsible for treating our internal data platform as a product, enforcing software engineering rigor (CI/CD, automated testing, Infrastructure-as-Code) to eliminate manual toil and fragility
- You will act as the lead for the Customer Zero vision, defining how Data360 should evolve to meet the extreme scale, security, and interoperability requirements of a large enterprise like Salesforce
- You will bridge the gap between internal business requirements and the external product roadmap, ensuring that Salesforce Data360 is battle-tested and enterprise-ready
- Automated SDLC: Lead the transition from manual, high-privilege production deployments to a fully automated CI/CD Platform Service. Architect pipelines that reduce deployment times from hours to minutes using modern DevOps tooling
- Test Automation Strategy: Enforce a "Test-Driven" culture for data products. Implement automated regression testing, data quality monitoring (Monte Carlo), and performance benchmarking to catch regressions before they hit production
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Treat infrastructure configuration (Data Spaces, Data Streams, Identity Resolution rules) as code. Ensure all environment configurations are version-controlled, reproducible, and drift-resistant
- Governance as Code: Embed governance policies (classification, PII detection, retention) directly into the deployment pipeline, ensuring compliance is automated rather than audited manually
- Product Evolution Partner: Act as the primary engineering counterpart to the Data Cloud Product (T&P) leadership. Use our internal implementation (E360/C360) to validate features like Vector Search, Hybrid Search, and BYOL at massive scale (600M+ records) before General Availability
- Enterprise Architecture Vision: Define the "North Star" architecture for Enterprise Data Cloud, specifically addressing High Availability (Tier 1a) and Disaster Recovery (15-minute RTO) requirements that enterprise customers demand
- Feedback Loops: Institutionalize structured feedback loops (QBRs, detailed bug logs, scale testing results) to directly influence the product roadmap, ensuring the platform supports complex enterprise use cases like Zero Copy and Data Mesh
- Tableau Cloud & Unified Analytics: Lead the engineering strategy for Tableau Next and Unified Analytics, harmonizing the semantic layer across CRM Analytics, Tableau, and Data Cloud to create a single source of truth for metrics
- Performance & Reliability: Work closely with the Ops Org to ensure that the platform is set up to support Tier 1 Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for the analytics platform (e.g., >99.9% uptime). Automate the detection and cleanup of unused content to optimize cost and performance
- Tier 1a Mission Criticality: Work with Ops Org to Operationalize Data 360 as a Tier 1a platform capable of supporting 24/7 Agentic workloads. Establish a "Follow the Sun" SRE practice with a target Mean-Time-To-Detect (MTTD) of 15 minutes
- Zero Trust Security: Enforce a "Deny-by-Default" security posture. Implement Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) across all Data Spaces and achieve 100% stewardship and classification for high-risk assets
Our take
Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.
By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.
Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.
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Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2001
$46.9m
SERIES D
Nov 1999
$13.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $64.5m
Company benefits
- With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Marc Benioff
(Chair & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.
Parker Harris
(CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.
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