Director, Data Management Tooling

Role Summary

Salesforce is building toward an autonomous future, where trusted data is the default rather than an extra step, and the platform itself handles the work humans do today to find, verify, and govern data. With Agentforce built into every layer of our platform, engineers here build the intelligent systems that make governed data accessible to humans and AI agents alike. Data Platform Services (DPS) is the platform team making that future real, and Trust & Discovery is the team at the center of it.

We are looking for a Director of Software Engineering to lead Trust & Discovery
, the discovery platform, catalog, and governance layer that makes trusted data a property of every data product by design.

• Lead the metadata and discovery platform — including catalog, auto‑classification, stewardship workflows, and cross‑platform tag propagation — serving humans and AI agents from a single governed surface.
• Own the Trust Center, the consolidated quality and observability layer that surfaces a unified Trust API queryable by both humans and agents across the full data quality stack.
• Build the semantic trust layer that gives every governed metric a single canonical definition, accessible in natural language through headless analytics, governed MCPs, and Agentforce — making the compliant path the fastest path for producers and consumers.
• Lead a team that ships using AI as an operating model: governed AI‑assisted development, self‑healing pipelines, and automated evaluation harnesses behind every shipped capability.
• Engage CDO and CIO‑level stakeholders on multi‑year platform strategy and cross‑functional alignment with enterprise governance, architecture, and domain engineering teams.

• 12+ years of professional engineering experience, including significant time leading engineering organizations at the Director level or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience building data infrastructure at enterprise scale — catalog, governance, quality, observability, or platform tooling.
• Experience leading a team through an AI transformation that changed how the team ships, operates, and measures its own output — not just which tools are on the desktop.
• A strong point of view that governance is a property of the platform, not a workflow layered on top of it — with experience in federated environments where platform and domain teams share accountability.
• Track record of engaging executive stakeholders (CDO, CIO level) on multi‑year platform strategy.
• A related technical degree required.

• Hands‑on familiarity with modern data tools: dbt, Snowflake, data observability platforms, or agent infrastructure built on MCP.
• Experience with semantic layers, knowledge graphs, or ontology‑driven data architectures.
• External contributions — publishing, speaking, or open‑source work — on data platform, governance, or AI infrastructure topics.

• Time off programs
• Medical, dental, vision, and mental health support
• Paid parental leave
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k) and employee stock purchasing program

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non‑discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law.

This policy applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between.

The typical base salary range for this position is $197,300 – $313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $237,700 – $344,700 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.