# Software Engineering Leader

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $197,300 - $313,700 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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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
- software engineering
- reliability engineering
- SRE practices
- incident management
- large-scale distributed systems
- microservices
- product management
- program management

### 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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