# Director of Engineering **Company**: Salesforce **Location**: Seattle, Washington **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $197,300 - $313,700 annually **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://salesforce.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/Washington---Seattle/Director--Software-Engineering_JR366342?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c3c6fe22-68d ## Description Salesforce is seeking a visionary and operationally rigorous Director of Engineering to lead and scale a multi-layered engineering group dedicated to building robust, high-impact platforms. The Experience Artifact Platform (EAP) organization serves as the core deployment and management engine for Salesforce's multi-framework applications and the agentic Headless Experience Layer. Within this broader organization, your team will act as the crucial connective tissue, owning the middle-tier services that power these headless experiences. **Responsibilities:** - Own and synthesize multi-quarter technical roadmaps, securing buy-in and alignment from cross-functional stakeholders in Product, Go-To-Market, and overarching Engineering leadership. - Proactively identify resourcing gaps, architectural risks, and timeline blockers, presenting fully researched mitigation plans before escalations occur. - Represent the engineering organization in high-level stakeholder and business unit meetings with accuracy, executive presence, and deep technical context. - Manage, mentor, and delegate effectively to Engineering Managers and Engineering Leaders, transitioning them into fully autonomous leaders who can independently run their agile ceremonies and represent their respective domains. - Proactively manage organizational performance by conducting continuous gap analyses, identifying top performers for advanced technical challenges, and executing structured remediation plans for underperformers. - Own the downward communication of strategic shifts, organizational changes, and roadmaps, ensuring your engineers have clear context and connection to the broader business goals. - Build, implement, and hold teams accountable to rigorous, scalable systems for SLA compliance, bug hygiene, and incident management (RCAs). - Drive complex, cross-functional project deliveries from initial PRD through production rollout, defining exact delivery dates and ensuring on-time execution. - Establish unified dashboarding and standardized reporting metrics across all your teams to integrate with broader organizational standards, moving the team from reactive firefighting to predictable delivery. - Provide proactive, highly accurate visibility into your teams' sprint deliverables, capacity constraints, and blockers without requiring prompting or chasing from executive leadership. - Maintain a high standard of technical and leadership communication, ensuring that all status updates, timeline shifts, and technical justifications are thoroughly vetted before being presented. **Requirements:** - 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years at the Director level managing multiple teams and managing managers. - Proven experience designing, building, and operating large-scale services with high availability requirements. - Strong architectural background capable of deeply vetting technical designs, root-cause analyses (RCAs), and resolving complex technical debt at scale. - Proven track record of implementing operational systems that allow teams to function autonomously without requiring the Director to act as a day-to-day project manager. - Exceptional communicator with the ability to distill complex engineering statuses into clear, actionable updates for executive stakeholders. - Proven ability to handle production incidents and escalations calmly while maintaining strict focus on overarching operational baselines and project milestones. **Benefits:** - Time off programs - Medical, dental, vision - Mental health support - Paid parental leave - Life and disability insurance - 401(k) - Employee stock purchasing program ## Skills ### Required - software engineering - architectural design - technical leadership - operational management --- Source: [Apply at salesforce.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com](https://salesforce.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/Washington---Seattle/Director--Software-Engineering_JR366342?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)