Define and own the long-term technical and organizational vision for Salesforce’s cloud-native database platform.
Partner with Public Cloud and HyperForce leadership to enable Salesforce’s unified platform and applications across public clouds, including GCP.
Set the roadmap for scalability, performance, durability, availability, and cost efficiency to support Salesforce’s current and future workloads.
Lead the design, development, and evolution of a globally distributed, multi-tenant database system supporting all core Salesforce traffic.
Drive architectural decisions across storage, replication, consistency models, failover, disaster recovery, and data durability.
Collaborate closely with architects and product owners to build best-in-class database services and systems at scale.
Ensure strong engineering fundamentals, including modular design, correct abstractions, automated testing, and continuous integration.
Own SLAs for availability, latency, and durability of Salesforce’s database infrastructure.
Lead database-related incident management for Sev-0 and Sev-1 events, including prevention, response, and post-incident learning.
Champion automation, observability, and operational rigor to safely operate services at extreme scale.
Drive execution by working across cross-functional teams spanning database engineering, public cloud infrastructure, HyperForce, SRE, and product engineering.
Balance long-term architectural investments with short-term delivery commitments.
Make critical technical and organizational decisions, innovating aggressively while managing operational risk.
Hire, build, and scale a world-class, geographically distributed engineering organization.
Mentor and grow senior engineers, architects, managers, and managers-of-managers.
Establish clear expectations for technical leadership, ownership, and accountability.
Foster an inclusive, high-performance culture with a strong emphasis on diversity and engineering excellence.
Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive leadership and stakeholders.
Represent Salesforce Database Engineering in executive planning, architecture reviews, and strategic initiatives.
Encourage ideas, bring a strong point of view, and lead through influence as well as authority.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
20+ years of overall engineering experience, with 10+ years leading large, multi-level engineering organizations.
Deep expertise in distributed systems, databases, or large-scale storage platforms.
Proven experience owning and operating cloud-based, mission-critical services at B2C scale.
Strong background in service ownership, operational excellence, and 24×7 production systems.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage both executives and deeply technical audiences.
Experience building or operating cloud-native, multi-tenant database platforms (preferred).
Working knowledge of public cloud technologies (GCP, AWS, Azure) and large enterprise cloud migrations (preferred).
Experience partnering with public cloud platform teams and enabling large-scale platform transitions (preferred).
Strong grounding in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming (preferred).
Agile mindset with experience operating in Scrum/Agile environments (preferred).

Benefits

time off programs
medical, dental, vision
mental health support
paid parental leave
life and disability insurance
401(k)
employee stock purchasing program

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

distributed systemsdatabasescloud-native database platformsservice ownershipoperational excellencedata structuresalgorithmsobject-oriented programmingautomated testingcontinuous integration

Soft Skills

communication skillsleadershipmentoringcollaborationorganizational visioninfluenceproblem-solvingdecision-makingcultural inclusivityhigh-performance culture