Manager/Sr. Manager - Software Engineering

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Software Engineering

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Salesforce is looking for technically strong, energetic, highly collaborative, and passionate leaders to lead our software engineering teams! You will run and lead a team/teams of outstanding developers and keep quality in mind. We work in a collaborative environment, and we value open communication and feedback, code reviews, and making learning fun!

Your Impact:

• Make critical decisions that attribute to the success of the product

• Proactive in foreseeing issues and resolving it before it happens

• Daily management of stand-ups as the Scrum Master for engineering teams

• Partner with PO to align with objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, and risk

• Ensuring teams have clear priorities and adequate resources

• Empowering the delivery team to self coordinate

• Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members’ success

• Providing technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members

• Maintaining high morale and motivating the delivery team to go above and beyond

• Vocally advocating for technical excellence and helping the teams make good decisions

• Participating in architecture discussions and planning

• Participating in multi-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams

• Maintaining and encouraging our culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals

• Occasionally chipping in to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical skill sharp

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of industry experience, with 3+ years in a people leadership role managing successful software engineering teams.

• Proven ability to manage stakeholders and relationships within a highly matrixed organizational structure.

• Demonstrated experience leading programs, projects, and software services.

• Strong experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Strong knowledge of infrastructure and automation.

• Leading teams and/or hands on experience with Terraform and Kubernetes

• Experience and passion for service ownership, building reliable, self-healing services.

• Experience working in a complex team environment, with the ability to deliver under pressure and dependency constraints.

• Experience with Scrum or other agile development methodologies, with a strong focus on code quality and delivering secure code.

• Good programming background, ideally with experience in Go (Golang), Python, Java. 

• Experience managing and utilizing open-source technologies, including developing contribution strategies and engaging with upstream communities (preferable).

• Master’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or related field of study, and two (2) years of experience in job offered or in any occupation in related field OR Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or related field of study, and five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in job offered or in any oc