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Manager/Sr. Manager - Software Engineering

Salesforce
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Aug 2025
💰 $351,800/yr($157,600/yr$351,800/yr)

About the role

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

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.

Note: By applying to the Sr. Manager Software Engineering posting, recruiters and hiring managers across the organization hiring engineering directors will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams.

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:

  • Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many multi-functional teams, architects, product owners and engineer
  • 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:

  • A related technical degree required
  • 3 + years of 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 time management skills
  • Ability to be flexible, proactive, comfortable working with minimal specifications
  • Experience with short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and experience working on a product that’s been released for public consumption
  • 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 with Agile development methodologies. Scrum Master experience required
  • Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and product management to understand requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs


Benefits & Perks

Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

Salesforce Information

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