Manager/Sr. Manager - Software Engineering

undefined ago • 10 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $157,600 PA - $384,100 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Salesforce is seeking a technically strong, energetic, and collaborative leader to manage software engineering teams. This role involves making critical product decisions, proactively resolving issues, acting as Scrum Master, and partnering with Product Owners. Responsibilities also include ensuring team priorities and resources, empowering delivery, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and maintaining high morale. The manager will advocate for technical excellence, participate in architecture discussions, cross-functional coordination, and hiring, occasionally contributing to development tasks to maintain technical skills.
Must have:
  • Make critical decisions for product success.
  • Proactively foresee and resolve issues.
  • Daily management of stand-ups as Scrum Master.
  • Partner with Product Owner on objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, and risk.
  • Ensure teams have clear priorities and adequate resources.
  • Empower the delivery team to self-coordinate.
  • Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring.
  • Maintain high morale and motivate the team.
  • Advocate for technical excellence and guide decision-making.
  • Participate in architecture discussions and planning.
  • Participate in cross-functional coordination, planning, and reviews.
  • Maintain and encourage culture by interviewing and hiring.
  • Occasionally contribute to development tasks.
  • 10+ years industry experience, 3+ years in people leadership.
  • Ability to manage stakeholders and relationships.
  • Experience leading programs, projects, and software services.
  • Strong experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Strong knowledge of infrastructure and automation.
  • Experience with Terraform and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with service ownership, building reliable services.
  • Experience working in a complex team environment.
  • Experience with Scrum or agile development, focus on code quality.
  • Good programming background (Go, Python, Java).
  • Master’s degree with 2 years experience OR Bachelor’s degree with 5 years experience.
Good to have:
  • Experience managing and utilizing open-source technologies, including developing contribution strategies and engaging with upstream communities.
Perks:
  • wellbeing reimbursement
  • generous parental leave
  • adoption assistance
  • fertility benefits

Job Details

Job Category

Software Engineering

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Note: By applying to the Sr. Manager Software Engineering posting, recruiters and hiring managers across the organization hiring engineering directors will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams.

Salesforce is looking for technically strong, energetic, highly collaborative, and passionate leaders to lead our software engineering teams! You will run and lead a team/teams of outstanding developers and keep quality in mind. We work in a collaborative environment, and we value open communication and feedback, code reviews, and making learning fun!

Your Impact:

  • Make critical decisions that attribute to the success of the product
  • Proactive in foreseeing issues and resolving it before it happens
  • Daily management of stand-ups as the Scrum Master for engineering teams
  • Partner with PO to align with objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, and risk
  • Ensuring teams have clear priorities and adequate resources
  • Empowering the delivery team to self coordinate
  • Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members’ success
  • Providing technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members
  • Maintaining high morale and motivating the delivery team to go above and beyond
  • Vocally advocating for technical excellence and helping the teams make good decisions
  • Participating in architecture discussions and planning
  • Participating in multi-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams
  • Maintaining and encouraging our culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals
  • Occasionally chipping in to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical skill sharp

Required Skills:

  • 10+ years of industry experience, with 3+ years in a people leadership role managing successful software engineering teams.
  • Proven ability to manage stakeholders and relationships within a highly matrixed organizational structure.
  • Demonstrated experience leading programs, projects, and software services.
  • Strong experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Strong knowledge of infrastructure and automation.
  • Leading teams and/or hands on experience with Terraform and Kubernetes
  • Experience and passion for service ownership, building reliable, self-healing services.
  • Experience working in a complex team environment, with the ability to deliver under pressure and dependency constraints.
  • Experience with Scrum or other agile development methodologies, with a strong focus on code quality and delivering secure code.
  • Good programming background, ideally with experience in Go (Golang), Python, Java.
  • Experience managing and utilizing open-source technologies, including developing contribution strategies and engaging with upstream communities (preferable).
  • Master’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or related field of study, and two (2) years of experience in job offered or in any occupation in related field OR Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or related field of study, and five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in job offered or in any occupation in related field.

Benefits & Perks

Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

Salesforce Information

Check out our Salesforce Engineering Site.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $157,600 to $351,800.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,000 to $384,100.

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