Sr. Director Engineering
Salesforce
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Salesforce is looking for technically strong, upbeat, highly collaborative, and hard-working senior leader to lead our software engineering team which will build and enhance our Machine Learning foundations. You will use your experience in the areas of ML and support a team of outstanding developers while keeping quality in mind. This is an opportunity to buid something new and exciting which will meaningfully underlay and enhance a range of Salesforce most successful products. We work in a collaborative environment, and we value open communication and feedback, code reviews, and making learning fun!
Responsibilities:
Partner with Salesforce AI Cloud leaders to define and refine the strategy and roadmap
Lead the planning, development and maintenance of high-quality and highly available systems in which ML models live
Partner with Product Managers, Technical Program Managers to closely track progress across multiple workstreams and delivering goals for varying stakeholders
Retain top talent within the teams; hire top talents; invest in continuous employee development of successful teams and have a passion for team and team members’ success
Effectively communicate and cultivate collaboration in the team
Identify opportunities and improvements in the processes and culture of the teams and the larger engineering organization
Required Skills:
Proven track record leading software engineering teams with a distinguished track record on technically fast paced projects
Experience leading large scale distributed systems, working with microservices and/or distributed architecture
Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and project management skills. Ability to work effectively in a distributed team setting
Ability to be flexible, proactive, comfortable working with minimal specifications
Experience with short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and experience developing products from scratch
Experience in hiring, mentoring and leading engineers
Working experience of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build processes, testing, and operations
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and product management to understand requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
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