Salesforce

Director - Software Engineering

Salesforce$197K — $344K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 9+ years of experience, with 4+ years in management
  • Proficiency in Golang, Java, and/or C++ in Linux/UNIX environments
  • Expertise in live site/production service ownership
  • Strong knowledge in distributed systems design
  • Experience operating mission-critical services
  • Background in Agile methodologies and Test-Driven Development
  • Ability to leverage telemetry and metrics for operational excellence

Responsibilities

  • Manage and lead a passionate engineering team, focusing on recruitment
  • Drive service ownership and build reliable, self-healing services
  • Navigate complex environments and deliver under pressure
  • Develop large-scale distributed systems in cloud settings
  • Utilize public cloud services like AWS and Google Cloud Platform
  • Apply knowledge of network technologies such as TCP/IP and HTTP proxies
  • Balance live-site management with feature delivery and technical debt retirement

Benefits

  • Opportunities for contributions to open source software projects
  • Focus on creating a reliable, scalable, and feature-rich delivery platform
  • Engagement in transforming the current software stack to cloud-native solutions
  • Support for professional growth and the management of passionate engineering teams
  • Work within a collaborative, high-pressure environment advocating for operational excellence
Full Job Description

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

The Experience:

The Salesforce Edge service provides a secure and compliant mechanism for this global user base to achieve better performance. In addition to the ingress services, the Edge team is also responsible for the egress gateways that provide security and visibility into connections that go out of the data center.

We are looking for a people leader who can manage and drive the team doing the design and implementation of the service. We intend to transform our current software stack to adopt more cloud native primitives to build a more reliable, scalable, and feature-rich delivery platform. Our software stack is based on leading open source software projects like Nginx. The opportunities to enhance the capabilities of the OSS software and contribute back to the community are immense. We are looking to add experienced leader in distributed systems engineers who is passionate, hungry for new challenges, can step up and help deliver on that vision.

What You'll Actually Be Doing:

  • Experience managing team of passionate engineer including recruitment

  • Experience and passion for service ownership, building reliable/self-healing services.

  • Experience working in a complex team environment. Able to deliver under pressure and dependency constraints.

  • Experience building large scale distributed systems, especially in cloud environments

  • Familiar with public cloud services with AWS and Google Cloud Platform •

  • Good knowledge with network technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, HTTP proxies, etc.

  • Experience at Scrum or other agile development methodologies, with attention to code quality, delivering secure code

  • You have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt.

  • Excited by building reliable, self-healing services on unreliable hardware.

  • Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple datacenters.

  • Capable of driving and delivering thin slices of end-to-end functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops.

You're Our Person If:

  • 9+ years of experience with at least 4 years of management experience

  • Experience with Golang, Java and/or C++ in a Linux/UNIX data center environment

  • Experience with live site / production service ownership

  • Experience with distributed system design

  • Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a mission critical service

  • Experience with Agile development methodology and Test-Driven Development

  • Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence

Even Better If:

  • Experience with Networking - TCP, TLS, DNS

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