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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.
About Salesforce
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.
Role Description:
Join our dynamic team at Salesforce and make a real impact with your software designs and code! This position requires technical skills, outstanding analytical and influencing skills, and extraordinary business insight. It is a multi-functional role that requires building alignment and communication with several engineering organisations. We work in a highly collaborative environment, and you will partner with a highly cross functional team comprised of Data Scientists, Software Engineers, Machine learning engineers, UX experts, and product managers to build AI Apps. We value execution, clear communication, feedback and making learning fun.
About the Role
The Engineering Manager demonstrates deep business, industry, and product knowledge to ensure the success of our customers by effectively managing a team of Engineers and Architects. We're looking for technically strong, energetic, highly collaborative, and passionate leaders to lead our software engineering teams.
Your Impact
* Drive execution and delivery of features by collaborating with multi-functional teams, architects, product owners, and engineers
* Make critical decisions that contribute to the success of the product
* Proactively foresee and resolve issues before they happen
* Run daily stand-ups as Scrum Master for engineering teams
* Partner with Product Owners to align on objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, and risk
* Ensure teams have clear priorities and adequate resources
* Empower the delivery team to self-coordinate
* Be a multiplier — passionate about team members' success
* Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring
* Maintain high morale and motivate teams to go above and beyond
* Vocally advocate for technical excellence and help teams make sound decisions
* Participate in architecture discussions, planning, and multi-functional reviews
* Maintain culture by interviewing and hiring top talent
* Occasionally contribute to coding and feature verification to stay technically sharp
Minimum Requirements
* Related technical degree required
* 12+ years of Software Engineering experience with 3–5 years leading sizeable teams on fast-paced technical projects
* Experience leading large-scale distributed systems, microservices, and/or distributed architecture
* Strong verbal and written communication, organizational, and time management skills
* Comfortable working with minimal specifications in a flexible, proactive manner
* Experience with short release cycles, full software lifecycle, and public product releases
* Proven experience hiring, mentoring, and leading engineers
* Solid grasp of engineering best practices: coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build, testing, and operations
* Agile/Scrum experience required
Preferred Requirements
* Strong knowledge of Salesforce product and platform features
* Understanding of enterprise architecture principles
* Ability to articulate the importance of Governance to business and IT executives
* Ability to quickly grasp and explain both technological and business concepts
* Trusted advisor mindset with deep curiosity about customer needs
* FDE/Automation/QE knowledge
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.
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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.
Skills Required
- BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
- 5+ years industry experience in SaaS or large-scale systems
- 3+ years leading teams of 5+ engineers developing/implementing platforms
- 3+ years leading in a highly operational or DevOps team with on-call culture
- Experience designing, building, and automating CI/CD and secrets management platforms
- Proven experience with SDLC, Agile practices, and cross-organizational delivery
- Strong leadership skills: team building, mentoring, recruiting, and people development
- Effective communication and project/product ownership skills
- Preferable: expert in infrastructure with strong understanding of file servers and databases
Salesforce Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Salesforce and has not been reviewed or approved by Salesforce.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is positioned as above-market in the U.S., with multiple peer-reported benchmarks converging around a similar median total compensation figure. Compensation is also framed as broadly viewed as fair in aggregate, even while acknowledging variation by role and group.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as notably generous for U.S. caregivers, with additional supports like gradual return-to-work and doula reimbursement. Family-building programs are also emphasized through fertility/adoption/surrogacy support with sizeable reimbursement limits.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Mental-health and coaching offerings are highlighted as accessible supports alongside financial-wellbeing tools. Volunteer Time Off and donation matching are presented as distinctive lifestyle-aligned benefits that add value beyond cash compensation.
Salesforce Insights
What We Do
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where Humans with agents drive customer success together. Through Agentforce, our groundbreaking suite of customizable agents and tools, Salesforce brings autonomous AI agents, unified data from any source, and best-in-class Customer 360 apps together on one integrated platform to help companies connect with customers in a whole new way. Salesforce is democratizing AI agents for businesses of every size and industry so every company can embrace a workforce without limits. Our low code, open, and secure platform helps companies build and customize Salesforce fast so they can safely scale AI-powered work to every customer and employee experience and transform their business. Salesforce is proud to be the market leader, but we’re even more proud to lead in philanthropy, innovation and culture. Guided by core values of trust, customer success, innovation, equality, and sustainability, Salesforce is more than a business — we’re a platform for change.
Why Work With Us
There’s no typical day in the life of a Salesforce employee. You could be transforming our next AI innovation — or transforming your community. Closing deals — or closing your laptop for a day of Volunteer Time Off. Driving change for our customers — or driving change within one of our high-performing teams.
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