
Director of Engineering – Customer Identity, Data Graphs
Salesforce
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Seattle • Illinois • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $197,300 - $313,700 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Architect Customer-centric identity graphs : Design and implement views of user and customer-level insights
- Lead Data Development: Oversee the creation of the metrics and pipelines necessary for developing a critical suite of highly available metrics.
- Team Leadership : Lead, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of engineers, fostering technical excellence and career growth.
- Strategic Roadmap: In partnership with product managers, define the technical vision for customer data graphs, aligning product strategy with emerging technologies and technical feasibility.
- Operational Excellence: Establish rigorous standards for data quality, latency, and on-time delivery to build trust in product.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Decision scientists, Data Scientists, Product Managers, and other engineering leaders to translate complex business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Automation and Integration: Develop event-driven architecture to ensure lowest latency is available, and automate pipelines for data delivery
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, or a related field.
- 10+ years in engineering, with a significant focus on search technology, vector databases, data engineering, and AI/ML infrastructure.
- Deep expertise in Search Indices (e.g., Pinecone, Milvus, Redis).
- Experience with Workflow Orchestration tools like Airflow or dbt.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Scala, and experience with data frameworks like Spark and Pandas/Polars.
- Hands-on experience with Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure) and modern data warehousing (BigQuery, Redshift, Data Cloud).
- Hands-on experience with the Salesforce ecosystem (Data360, Agentforce, Service Cloud, etc.).
- Understanding of Customer Identity Resolution, one to many metric reconciliation, and low latency data streams.
- Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts (graph databases or event-driven architecture) to non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven experience managing engineering teams in a fast-paced, enterprise environment.
Benefits
- time off programs
- medical
- dental
- vision
- mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonJavaScalaSparkPandasPolarsSearch IndicesWorkflow OrchestrationCloud PlatformsCustomer Identity Resolution
Soft Skills
team leadershipmentoringcross-functional collaborationcommunicationoperational excellencestrategic visiontechnical excellenceproblem-solvingcareer growth facilitationtrust building