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From the employer's careers site First seen 14 Nov 2026

Software Engineering Leader

Salary

$197,300 - $313,700 annually

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Description

Salesforce is seeking a full-spectrum engineering leader to own a portfolio of services critical to its availability posture.

As a Software Engineering Leader, you will own the architecture, reliability, scalability, and security of services that gate change for the entire company. You will set a high bar for operational excellence, apply AI and automation to improve availability outcomes, and lead an organization of experienced engineers.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning the technical direction, program execution, product strategy, and people management for a portfolio of services
  • Setting a high bar for operational excellence, including SLOs, on-call health, incident response, and technical debt management
  • Applying AI and automation to improve availability outcomes
  • Leading an organization of experienced engineers, including hiring, developing, and retaining talent
  • Building high-ownership teams where engineers understand the 'why' and own outcomes
  • Communicating with clarity and brevity to executives, peers, and partner organizations

Requirements:

  • Related technical degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams
  • Proven track record of owning large, cross-organizational programs end to end
  • Deep experience with large-scale distributed systems and microservices, plus a strong grounding in reliability engineering, SRE practices, and incident management
  • Strong product sense, program management skills, and experience hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience building change-safety, deployment-safety, release guardrail, incident-prevention, or resilience platforms at hyperscale
  • Familiarity with problem management and availability governance processes
  • Experience applying AI and data platforms to operational and reliability problems

The typical base salary range for this position is $197,300 - $313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $237,700 - $344,700 annually.

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • change-safety platforms
  • deployment-safety platforms
  • release guardrail
  • incident-prevention platforms
  • resilience platforms
  • problem management
  • availability governance processes
  • AI platforms
  • data platforms
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