Director, Software Engineering
Salesforce
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We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good– you’ve come to the right place.
The ideal candidate is an experienced, thoughtful and technical leader ready to mentor, and grow a world class engineering team focused on achieving our business objectives of reliably evolving the database schema during both the development and release cycles, while continuously improving our technology to do so.
Your job is to foster career development of the team and to ensure customer success through enablement of consistent, reliable, and safe schema releases. As a leader you will drive the vision, strategy, collaboration, and execution of all processes, tooling, and services owned by the team.
Responsibilities:
Lead and develop the team to deliver impact and value supporting the growth of the business, effectively scaling the database release to support 2-3x growth in the number of production environments within the coming fiscal years.
Collaborate with release managers, release engineers, and Salesforce Database partner team to ensure the successful end-to-end lifecycle for schema changes.
Successfully deliver schema releases three times a year to production environments without impacting performance, availability, or downstream maintenance/releases.
Continuously evolve the schema on internal environments throughout the development cycle in order to support schema changes required by scrum teams.
Mentor and grow each individual team member by aligning and delivering on business goals.
Accountable to engage architects and leaders to align on the DB Schema Long Range Plan (LRP) based on a 3 to 5 year time horizon.
Required Qualifications
10+ years of experience in leading DevOps software engineers
Demonstrated ownership and accountability for service delivery
Proven track record in ability to mentor and to grow software engineers at varying levels of experience
Ability to identify, attract, and hire candidates with the required skill set and potential for growth
Ability to foresee conflicts and deliver impactful just-in-time feedback to achieve resolution.
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Desirable Qualifications:
A solid understanding of database and/or schema management
Strong analytical skills
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Posting Statement
At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at www.equality.com and explore our company benefits at www.salesforcebenefits.com.
Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.
Salesforce welcomes all.
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 California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $210,800 to $305,600.Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.