Senior Developer Productivity Engineer, Salesforce
SMTS
$148.5-246k
Salary dependent on location. + ESPP
Office located in Redwood City, CA
World's leading CRM provider
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World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$148.5-246k
Salary dependent on location. + ESPP
Office located in Redwood City, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum: 5+ years of progressive experience in Developer Productivity, DevEx, DevOps, Build/CI Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Demonstrated ability to deliver impactful, production-quality systems in large-scale enterprise environments
- Experience working on or closely with developer experience or platform engineering teams is strongly preferred
- Containerization & Orchestration
- Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm
- Cloud & Configuration
- AWS, Chef, Ansible
- CI Platforms
- Harness CI, Jenkins
- Data Pipelines & Frontend
- Airbyte, Svelte
- Security & Testing
- Veracode (SAST/SCA)
- Observability & Analytics
- ELK Stack, Faros.ai, LinearB, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
- Build Systems & Artifacts
- Maven, Gradle, Ant, JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus
- Languages & Scripting
- Groovy (Pipeline-as-Code), Python, Java, Bash
- Version Control
- Git, GitHub, Perforce
What the job involves
- As a Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) – Developer Productivity & CI/CD, you will be a key technical contributor on Salesforce's global engineering platform team
- You will own equally the twin pillars of this role: Developer Productivity Engineering — reducing friction, improving tooling, and accelerating developer velocity — and CI/CD Platform Engineering — building, scaling, and maintaining the continuous integration and delivery infrastructure that powers Salesforce's global engineering organization
- This role blends deep technical expertise with cross-team collaboration to deliver data-driven insights, scalable build infrastructure, and a world-class developer experience
- Developer Productivity Engineering: Identify, measure, and eliminate systemic friction in the developer lifecycle — including slow builds, flaky tests, complex tooling, and inefficient workflows — using data-driven methodologies (DORA, SPACE) to measurably improve developer velocity
- CI/CD Platform Engineering: Design, implement, and maintain robust Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines using Harness CI and Jenkins, ensuring high availability, low latency, and consistent throughput across the global CI/CD ecosystem
- Developer Tooling & Portals: Develop high-performance internal developer tooling, dashboards, and CLI utilities using modern frontend technologies (e..g., Svelte) alongside backend services — making it easier and faster for engineers to build, test, and ship
- Build Infrastructure: Build and optimize software-defined infrastructure for centralized build repositories and configuration management across on-prem and cloud environments, following Salesforce's infrastructure standards
- Kubernetes-Based Build Environments: Implement and optimize containerized build/test workloads on Kubernetes (EKS), including resource tuning, autoscaling configurations (e.g., Karpenter/KEDA), and ephemeral agent lifecycle management
- Metrics & Observability: Instrument and maintain engineering productivity metrics (DORA, SPACE) by building automated data pipelines via Airbyte and observability dashboards using the ELK Stack, Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana — surfacing actionable insights to engineering teams
- Security & Compliance: Integrate automated static analysis and software composition analysis (Veracode SAST/SCA) into CI/CD pipelines, enforcing quality and security gates to shift left on application security
- Build System Optimization: Serve as a subject matter expert on multi-language build systems (Maven, Gradle, Ant), optimizing dependency trees, build caching, and distributed build execution to reduce cycle times for large Java and Python codebases
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Author and maintain modular, idempotent IaC configurations using Ansible and Chef to eliminate environment drift and enforce compliance baselines across build agents
- Version Control & Source Integrity: Contribute to and enforce Git/Perforce branching strategies (e.g., trunk-based development), pre-commit/pre-merge validations, and branch protection policies supporting hundreds of concurrent developers
- Incident Response & Troubleshooting: Provide expert-level root-cause analysis for complex CI/CD infrastructure failures, leveraging deep knowledge of Linux internals, distributed systems, and APM tooling
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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