Sr. Manager - Software Engineering - Distributed Systems

$151,800 - $341,900/Yr

Salesforce - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Manager

Seattle, WA

Publishing Industries

About the position

Salesforce is seeking a Sr. Manager of Software Engineering who will play a pivotal role in leading our software engineering teams. This position is designed for technically strong, energetic, and highly collaborative leaders who are passionate about driving performance and career growth within their teams. As a Sr. Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with multi-functional teams, architects, product owners, and engineers. You will make critical decisions that contribute to the success of our products and proactively foresee and resolve issues before they arise. In this role, you will manage daily stand-ups as the Scrum Master for engineering teams, ensuring that teams have clear priorities and adequate resources. You will empower your delivery team to self-coordinate and act as a multiplier, fostering a culture of success among team members. Your responsibilities will also include providing technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to your team, maintaining high morale, and motivating the delivery team to exceed expectations. You will advocate for technical excellence, participate in architecture discussions, and coordinate planning and reviews with leads from other engineering teams. Additionally, you will be involved in the hiring process, ensuring that only the most qualified individuals join our teams. Occasionally, you may also contribute to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments and to keep your technical skills sharp.

Responsibilities

• Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with multi-functional teams, architects, product owners, and engineers.
• Make critical decisions that contribute to the success of the product.
• Proactively foresee issues and resolve them before they happen.
• Manage daily stand-ups as the Scrum Master for engineering teams.
• Partner with Product Owners to align with objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, and risks.
• Ensure teams have clear priorities and adequate resources.
• Empower the delivery team to self-coordinate.
• Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members.
• Maintain high morale and motivate the delivery team to go above and beyond.
• Advocate for technical excellence and help teams make good decisions.
• Participate in architecture discussions and planning.
• Engage in multi-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams.
• Maintain and encourage our culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals.
• Occasionally contribute to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications.

Requirements

• A related technical degree required.
• 3+ years of proven track record leading software engineering teams with a distinguished track record on technically fast-paced projects.
• Experience leading large scale distributed systems, working with microservices and/or distributed architecture.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to be flexible, proactive, and comfortable working with minimal specifications.
• Experience with short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and experience working on a product that's been released for public consumption.
• Experience in hiring, mentoring, and leading engineers.
• Working experience of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies; Scrum Master experience required.
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and product management to understand requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.

Benefits

• Wellbeing reimbursement
• Generous parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Fertility benefits