Category:  Technology - Infrastructure Engineering

Location:  US - California - San Francisco (HQ)

Post Date:  11/10/2017

Senior Director, Software Engineering - Compute Deploy Pipeline Group
Compute Platform Mission
Salesforce.com hosts web services and applications written by thousands of internal developers and tens of thousands of customers to provide the largest business automation cloud on the planet. The compute infrastructure that enables this innovation and value is evolving to fully embrace lights-out operations, single-click deploy to tens of thousands of nodes, and services that self-heal and self-optimize. We are looking to add experienced distributed systems engineers who can step up and own big chunks of that vision.

Compute Deploy Pipeline Mission
The Compute Deploy Cloud is in the business of enhancing engineering productivity. We provide a robust continuous integration and delivery pipeline that enables Salesforce engineering teams to deliver features to customers efficiently. At our core we have secure, reliable, and scalable services that take software from engineer to customer. As Salesforce continues its rapid growth, we will be tackling new and exciting challenges in the areas of software build, packaging, and deployment at massive scale. Our teams are responsible for creating the platform that enables our company to develop and deliver solutions to our customers at a breakneck pace. If you enjoy working on distributed systems and solving challenging scale problems in the continuous integration and delivery space, then apply for this position.

Requirements

• 10+ years of development experience
• 7+ years managing development or mixed engineering teams
• Experience with Java, Go or C++ in a Linux/UNIX data center environment
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a mission critical service
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Test-Driven Development
• Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence
• Experience growing high performing engineering teams
• Experience doing whatever it takes to get it shipped, including buying the pizza

Some attributes of successful candidates

• Passionate about engineering productivity and service ownership and customer success
• Passionate about Continuous Integration and Delivery and driving teams to adopt this delivery model
• Experience with Artifact Repositories (Docker Registry, Artifactory, Nexus, etc.)
• Experience with Source Control Systems (Perforce, GitHub, etc.)
• Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt across an entire development team.
• Ability to thrive in start-from-zero development efforts. No code, no team, both - you're not fazed.
• A passion for leading development teams in the creation of large, modular, and maintainable code bases.
• An unwavering love of shipping software.
• Familiarity with crash-only and recovery-oriented software design.
• Excited by building reliable, self-healing services on unreliable hardware.
• Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple datacenters.
• Agilista capable of driving and delivering thin slices of end-to-end functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops

Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. The company was founded on three disruptive ideas: a new technology model in cloud computing, a pay-as-you-go business model, and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. These founding principles have taken our company to great heights, including being named one of Forbes's "World's Most Innovative Company" five years in a row and one of Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" eight years in a row. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, and this level of growth equals incredible opportunities to grow a career at Salesforce. Together, with our whole Ohana (Hawaiian for "family") made up of our employees, customers, partners and communities, we are working to improve the state of the world.

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