Director, Software Engineering

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. 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. The Experience The Experience Artifact Platform (EAP) organization serves as the core deployment and management engine for Salesforce's multi-framework applications and the agentic Headless Experience Layer. Within this broader organization, your team will act as the crucial connective tissue, owning the middle-tier services that power these headless experiences. This includes driving the global branding architecture for all agentic interactions across our multi-framework offerings. Beyond these forward-looking initiatives, your group will also operate, maintain, and scale the Salesforce Files Platform—the large scale, foundational service supporting every line of business across the entire Salesforce ecosystem. We are seeking a visionary and operationally rigorous Director of Engineering to lead and scale a multi-layered engineering group dedicated to building robust, high-impact platforms. Lead and Mentor the Team: Develop your organization by establishing clear growth paths, empowering Engineering Managers and Engineering Leaders to operate autonomously, and cultivating top engineering talent. Build a High-Trust, High-Standards Culture: Foster an environment of high operational rigor and open communication, providing your team with clear strategic context and ensuring seamless visibility across the broader organization. Drive Delivery and Execution: Commit to ambitious quarterly goals with precise milestones, maintain predictable delivery timelines, and proactively navigate complex cross-functional dependencies. Set Technical Strategy and Architecture: Guide engineers with clear architectural direction, deeply vet technical designs, and secure alignment with stakeholders on long-term technical investments. Own Reliability and Operational Excellence: Uphold exceptional standards for system performance, SLA compliance, and incident response, driving continuous improvements in platform resiliency at scale. What You'll Actually Be Doing • Own and synthesize multi-quarter technical roadmaps, securing buy-in and alignment from cross-functional stakeholders in Product, Go-To-Market, and overarching Engineering leadership. • Proactively identify resourcing gaps, architectural risks, and timeline blockers, presenting fully researched mitigation plans before escalations occur. • Represent the engineering organization in high-level stakeholder and business unit meetings with accuracy, executive presence, and deep technical context. • Manage, mentor, and delegate effectively to Engineering Managers and Engineering Leaders, transitioning them into fully autonomous leaders who can independently run their agile ceremonies and represent their respective domains. • Proactively manage organizational performance by conducting continuous gap analyses, identifying top performers for advanced technical challenges, and executing structured remediation plans for underperformers. • Own the downward communication of strategic