Senior Software Engineering Manager

Senior Manager - Software Engineering

Location: California - San Francisco

Remote Type: Office Tech-Flexible

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

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.

The Experience

Join Salesforce as a Senior Manager based in San Francisco, leading the Reliability Engineering team that runs our multi-cloud compute platform. Your team keeps Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Ingress Gateway, and Identity services secure and highly available across more than 1,000 clusters on AWS, Alibaba Cloud, and Google Cloud.

This is a critical leadership role blending deep technical expertise with a people-first leadership mindset. The leader will set the vision and drive the operations, reliability for the next-generation Service Mesh and Identity architecture across multiple clouds (AWS, AliCloud, GCP). Responsibilities include orchestrating, monitoring, availability and operations for the microservices supporting service mesh and ingress gateway on a large fleet of 1000+ clusters running various technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, network load balancers, service mesh, Istio and so on.

What You'll Actually Be Doing:

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers, building a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Set the technical vision and roadmap for the next generation of Service Mesh and Identity, and keep the platform reliable, observable, and self-healing at fleet scale.
• Partner with architects, product owners, and engineering leaders to deliver features and spot issues before they affect customers.
• Develop each engineer's ability to work in an AI-augmented environment, own how AI tools fit into the team's daily development cycle, and guard architectural integrity, security, and technical standards as AI-generated code increases.

You're Our Person If:

• You have 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineering teams, with hands-on depth in Kubernetes, service mesh, networking (DNS, TLS, HTTP proxies), and a major public cloud.
• You use AI development tools hands-on, and you have the technical depth to judge the architecture and quality of AI-generated output.
• You assess candidates on their ability to write effective prompts, evaluate AI outputs, and orchestrate multi-agent workflows, in addition to core technical skills.
• A related technical degree required.

Even Better If:

• You have programming experience in Go or Python.
• You have used infrastructure-as-code and delivery tools such as Terraform and Argo.
• You have used observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or Elasticsearch.
• You have experience building AI multi-agent or retrieval-augmented generation systems, or leading open-source contribution strategy.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

Accommodations

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Posting Statement

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.

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.

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At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.

The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually.

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

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