Principal Architect, 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.

You are an experienced technical leader with deep domain knowledge in distributed systems, and building enterprise grade platform-as-a-service offerings. You are experienced at operating secure, highly available, and mission critical services. You are an effective communicator who can provide external customers and executives with a 10k-feet view, and at the same time, have a technical discussion with the engineers. This role reports to the VP of Engineering.

The Service Cloud Digital Engagement is key to the success of the Service Cloud portfolio. We create personalized, intelligent conversations by integrating all Engagement on one unified, truly conversational platform built on the Customer 360. We build enduring trust and customer success with secure, highly available infrastructure by making our products easy to use and deploy. Digital Engagement is at the heart of the Shift to Scale and Digital Transformation. More and more customers are looking to invest in digital channels to move away from high-cost voice engagement. It spans no-touch, low-touch, and high-touch experiences and is critical in every industry segment.

Service Cloud Voice is one of the key offerings in the Digital Engagement Platform that offers digital intelligent telephony solution(s) native to the CRM platform. It is natively embedded within Salesforce CRM and the Salesforce console. It’s the first solution that brings telephony, CRM, and digital conversations together in real-time for both the support agents and supervisors. This deep integration between telephony and CRM will not only unlock more advanced voice/phone functionalities surfaced through the various types of Salesforce applications but also provide a consistent and integrated experience across all the conversation channels (chat, SMS, voice) supported by Salesforce today.


Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or Engineering

• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and container technologies such as Kubernetes

• Strong and broad working knowledge of the state of the art in cloud computing infrastructure including: IaaS, PaaS, containers, analytics, data center deployments, and others

• At least ten years of experience in platform architecture (SaaS, PaaS) with at least three years of experience in a similar leadership role

• Demonstrable experience and interest in architecting complex and scalable platform; expert level knowledge of relevant architecture/ design principles and patterns

• Demonstrable experience delivering cloud-native capabilities on AWS or equivalent;

• Proven experience and strong desire to lead, with experience leading cross functional architecture teams

• Advanced relationship management and communication skills, including partnering and consulting with senior leaders/C-level roles

• Strong skills in critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, and attention to detail

• Get-it-done attitude

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement features on the Service Cloud Voice and Bring-You-Own Channels

• Build and enable availability tracking and monitoring of the owned services.

• Operate in an Agile development environment, including participating in daily scrums.

• Develop a technical vision and technical long-range plan, and define a technical strategy for the organization

• Collaborate with stakeholders and other senior engineers across the globe.

• Build and oversee the Service Cloud Voice platform and architecture long-term plan that supports the objectives of the business. Translate vision into concrete execution plans.

• Engage with customers to validate architecture decisions and understand product requirements

• Serve as the primary steward and key voice of the architecture strategy, communicating decisions and tradeoffs to internal and external stakeholders

• Partner with Support, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success in organizat