Salesforce

Director, Cloud Engineering & Deployment Services

Salesforce$197K — $313K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in SaaS or large-scale systems leadership.
  • 5+ years of management experience overseeing teams of 5+ engineers.
  • Deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and cloud-native architectures.
  • Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms and automation.
  • Effective communicator with experience in cross-organizational projects.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the technical vision for cloud deployment and engineering platforms.
  • Drive AI-powered engineering practices to enhance automation and operational efficiency.
  • Lead the development of scalable and secure cloud platforms for reliable software delivery.
  • Translate strategic priorities into actionable roadmaps in collaboration with product management.
  • Foster cross-functional collaboration to improve developer productivity and customer satisfaction.

Benefits

  • Access to comprehensive healthcare options.
  • Flexible working hours to promote work-life balance.
  • Opportunities for professional development and continuous growth.
  • Support for mental health and wellness activities.
  • Participation in a collaborative and innovative work culture.
Full Job Description
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Job Category
Software Engineering

Job Details

The Experience

Location: San Francisco, CA or Palo Alto, CA

As Director, Cloud Engineering & Deployment Services, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for Tableau's continuous delivery platforms, cloud deployment services, and production engineering capabilities. Your team will enable secure, scalable, and seamless software releases while providing operational excellence for critical production services. By delivering world-class internal developer platforms, you will empower engineering teams to innovate faster while ensuring exceptional experiences for millions of Tableau customers. By fostering engineering excellence, operational efficiency, and cross-functional collaboration, you will help accelerate product delivery, improve developer productivity, and enhance customer trust and satisfaction.

What You'll Actually Be Doing
  • Define and execute the technical vision and long-term roadmap for Tableau's cloud deployment and engineering platforms.
  • Drive adoption of AI-powered engineering and AI-driven operations (AIOps) practices to improve automation, observability, operational efficiency, and developer productivity.
  • Lead the evolution of scalable, secure cloud platforms and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) capabilities using platform engineering principles, enabling reliable software delivery and operational excellence.
  • Partner with product management and engineering leadership to translate strategic priorities into executable roadmaps that deliver incremental customer value.


You're Our Person If...
  • You have experience building, coaching, and inspiring high-performing engineering teams through servant leadership, accountability, and continuous growth.
  • You bring deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, CI/CD platforms, observability, and modern cloud-native architectures.
  • You communicate effectively across teams and leaders, with cross-organizational project experience in a large organization.
  • You have 8+ years of industry experience in software as a service (SaaS) or large-scale systems, leading platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, developer productivity, development and operations (DevOps), or site reliability engineering (SRE) organizations, including 5+ years leading teams of 5+ engineers and 5+ years in a highly operational team with an on-call culture.


Even Better If...
  • You know how to translate high-level strategic requirements into smaller stories teams can execute against for iterative development and releases, and can help prioritize bugs, feature work, and architectural enhancements.
  • You have strong Agile practices along with an understanding of traditional project management concepts that ensure predictability, transparency, and accountability of deliverables.
  • You have experience with public cloud platforms, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD automation, and observability platforms.
  • You have a strong eye for talent and enjoy being part of the hiring process to help bring great people onto the team.


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