Director of Engineering Excellence

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

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.

Are you interested in shaping a highly effective engineering organization? Are you excited about the opportunity to influence others? Are you using data to drive quality and security forward? If your answer is these questions, this is your opportunity to join our innovative and dynamic Technology team at Salesforce.

As an Engineering Excellence leader (Director of Engineering), you will analyze a wide range of quality and security metrics across a number of teams. You will design and implement a strategy for teams to continuously improve our use of quality and security principles and practices. You will help teams inspect, adapt, deliver and mature. You will leverage your quality mindset and coaching expertise to facilitate the process and partner with internal stakeholders within the Technology organization. Our business unit guarantees the delivery of trusted products through common services, engineering platforms, and guardrails. We standardize infrastructure and development lifecycle capabilities to make #1 AI CRM innovation easy and secure-by-default. We ensure our environments are secure with identity, data, network, and systems common controls.

Our Engineering excellence group supports our scrum teams with industry-leading technology, best practices, and operational excellence. We seek a leader accountable for our software quality and trust outcomes.

The leader uses an analytical approach to drive the quality processes for our entire business unit. Collaborates with engineering and product teams to reduce toil and strengthen quality outcome of the development processes. The leader defines and promotes industry best practices and leverages trends and early warning signs to course correct quickly.

Key goals:

• Scale the execution of ‘Engineering and Operational excellence’ charter across 1000+ member ‘Hyperforce Trust Platform’ organization.

• Analyzes various quality and trust (Security) signals across 100+ scrum teams to identify improvement opportunities.

• Enable our teams to meet our security commitments, including SLAs for vulnerability and bug remediation, to ensure known security risks are addressed quickly.

• Collaborate with key collaborators and optimize development processes and systems to achieve better results.

• Is accountable for our Cloud’s quality practices and Trust outcomes

• Uses different levels of coaching to support our scrum teams

• Show own impact by using metrics

• Create, launch, and facilitate collaborative Quality Working groups

Minimum Requirements

• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree.

• 10+ years of working experience in technology organizations

• 2+ years of experience running large transformational programs cutting across teams.

• Good understanding of ‘Information security’ principles and practices.

• Hands-on experience applying Quality methodologies within many development teams.

• Excellent presentation and training skills.

• Individual contributor role - will not manage direct team. Needs to be able to influence with out authority.

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For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $204,400 to $296,400.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $223,000 to $323,400.

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.