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Job Category
Software Engineering
Job Details
About the RoleWe're building data products that will define Salesforce's next era of agentic intelligence - powering smarter, adaptive, and self-optimizing product experiences at enterprise scale. As Director of Data Engineering, you'll set the strategic direction, architectural vision, and organizational execution for the data systems behind Customer Success Score (CSS), one of Salesforce's most critical product intelligence assets. This is a high-visibility leadership role for a strategic technologist who thrives at the intersection of data, AI, and platform engineering.
What You'll Do
Platform Strategy & Roadmap- Own the roadmap for the CSS data platform, aligning engineering investment with Salesforce's agentic and AI-first product strategy
- Establish architectural principles and governance standards for telemetry, semantic modeling, and metadata-driven discovery at enterprise scale
- Drive convergence across product analytics, ML infrastructure, and AI data foundations - breaking down silos and creating shared organizational leverage
- Represent data engineering at the executive level; shape organizational priorities and secure resources for strategic initiatives
Technical Architecture & Excellence- Set and uphold the technical bar for distributed data systems - including fault-tolerant batch and streaming architectures (Spark, Trino, Flink, Kafka, dbt, Snowflake)
- Define engineering standards across software quality, CI/CD, observability, and reliability
- Guide platform evolution to support autonomous agent reasoning, real-time adaptive decisioning, and AI-native product experiences
- Champion semantic consistency, metric governance, and trusted signal definition across the organization
- Evaluate emerging technologies and drive adoption decisions that extend the platform's strategic value
Organizational Leadership & Talent- Lead and grow multiple engineering teams, including managers and senior individual contributors
- Build a culture of ownership, psychological safety, and high accountability
- Drive succession planning, leadership development, and talent retention
- Define hiring strategy and org structure to scale with business needs
Executive Influence & Cross-Functional Partnership- Build deep partnerships with product, data science, AI platform, telemetry engineering, and infrastructure leaders
- Communicate architecture, trade-offs, and investment decisions clearly to VP and C-suite stakeholders
- Align technical execution with business outcomes and enterprise priorities
- Influence Salesforce-wide standards for data and AI engineering beyond your direct scope
What We're Looking For
Required Qualifications- 15+ years of experience in data or platform engineering, with 5+ years leading engineering managers and multi-team organizations
- Proven track record building and scaling high-performing engineering orgs in complex, cross-functional environments
- Deep expertise with Spark, Trino/Presto, dbt, Snowflake, and modern lakehouse architectures
- Experience with streaming systems (Flink, Kafka), including topic design, partitioning, and scaling
- Strong command of semantic layers, data modeling, and enterprise metrics systems
- Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure (S3, EMR, ECS, IAM) and containerized environments
- Executive-level communication skills - able to influence without authority and present at the VP/C-suite level
- A related technical degree required.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with AI data engineering patterns, agentic data systems, or autonomous pipeline design
- Familiarity with MCP, knowledge graphs, or modern metadata platforms
- Experience designing programmatic data discovery and consumption frameworks
We're not just scaling a data platform - we're transforming how engineering teams are built and operate in an AI-native world, where data systems are the foundation of autonomous, intelligent product experiences.
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future - but to redefine what's possible - for yourself, for AI, and the world.
