Senior Director, Software Engineering

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Software Engineering

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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.

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.

About the Position:

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Senior Director of Engineering, MuleSoft to lead our MuleSoft Developer Experience Tools team and deliver cutting-edge AI-powered features and products on our integration platform. This leader will leverage advanced AI methods — including Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and agentic frameworks — to build transformative developer experiences that delight customers and drive business value. If you thrive in a fast-moving environment, have a passion for mobile innovation, and want to be at the forefront of AI and developer experiences, we want to hear from you!

You will be responsible for:

• Team Leadership: Lead a team of 35–40 individuals, including 2–3 engineering managers, ensuring alignment, performance, and team cohesion.

• Team Building & Talent Growth: Recruit, mentor, and retain top mobile engineers, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous development.

• AI-Driven Developer Strategy: Define and own the technical vision for MuleSoft developer experience products in collaboration with key stakeholders.

• Innovative Product Delivery: Oversee design, development, and on-time delivery of impactful mobile features, balancing rapid iteration with long-term investments.

• Operational & Technical Excellence: Ensure performance, reliability, and scalability through best practices, monitoring, and hands-on technical guidance.

• Strategic & Cross-Functional Leadership: Drive collaboration across teams, translating technical goals for leadership and influencing long-term AI investments.

• Drive scalable and extensible architecture and good hygiene practices

• Work closely with Support and key customers on production issues

Job Requirements:

• 6+ years in Engineering Leadership: Proven experience in an engineering leadership role, managing teams and driving complex technical initiatives.

• iPaaS/Integration Leadership: Substantial experience leading engineering teams building integration tools, shipping high-quality products under rapid development cycles.

• 12+ years building and delivering software products, cloud services

• Experience with AI Integration (Preferred): Familiarity with integrating AI capabilities into developer products e.g. LLM based code generation for specific domains and DSLs

• A related technical degree required.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills across technical and non-technical audiences

• Critical eye for product design, well-versed in good design principles especially around integration/API applications

• Ability to adapt and handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Expert experience with Agile development methodologies, certified scrum master preferred

In office expectations are 10 days/a quarter to support customers and/or collaborate with their teams.

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