Director of Engineering - Agentforce

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Job Category: Software Engineering

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.

Join our dynamic AI cloud team at Salesforce and make a real impact with your code! We're looking for exceptional leaders who want to shape the future of our products and deliver exceptional experiences to our customers. Come be a part of our innovative and collaborative environment, where your skills will thrive and your ideas will be valued. Apply now and let's build something extraordinary together!

In this role, you will build tools that help build and test AI agents that will be used by thousands of end users, delivering value with AI automation. Our software engineers ship applications written in the enterprise Java stack on the core platform and on our Agentforce platform. We work in a highly collaborative environment, and you will lead a highly cross functional team comprised of Software Engineers, Machine learning engineers, UX experts and product managers to build AI Agent tooling.

We value execution, clear communication, in person collaboration, and making learning fun.

• Build and ship innovative end-to-end AI applications
• Provide oversight and leadership through code and design reviews for features delivered by other developers within their scrum team.
• Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many cross functional teams, architects, product owners and engineer
• Make critical decisions that attribute to the success of the product
• Proactive in foreseeing issues and resolve it before it happens
• Daily management of standups as the Scrum Master for engineering teams
• Managing communication, alignment and execution with a global team
• Partner with Product Owner to align with objectives, priorities , tradeoffs and risk
• Ensuring teams have clear priorities and adequate resources
• Empowering the delivery team to self organize
• 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 cross-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams
• Maintaining and fostering our culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals
• Occasionally contributing 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 acumen sharp

• Masters / Bachelors degree required in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years experience leading software engineering teams with a distinguished track record on technically demanding projects
• Experience shipping Machine Learning applications
• Experience with Data engineering, specifically around data acquisition, creating data pipelines, metric measurement, and analysis
• Experience owning highly available services and putting processes in place to maintain uptime
• Experience managing large scale distributed systems, working with microservices and/or distributed architecture
• Prior experience working with global teams
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time management…