Senior Manager of Software Engineering

Salesforce

San Francisco, United States Posted October 26, 2026

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On-site Full-time Senior
Salary Range

$172,500 - $285,800

Job Description

Join Salesforce as a Senior Manager of Software Engineering, leading the Reliability Engineering team responsible for our multi-cloud compute platform. In this critical leadership role, you will set the vision and drive operations and reliability for the next-generation Service Mesh and Identity architecture across multiple clouds. You will lead a team of platform engineers, set the technical vision and roadmap, partner with architects and product owners, and develop each engineer's ability to work in an AI-augmented environment.

  • Orchestrate, monitor, and ensure the availability and operations of microservices supporting service mesh and ingress gateway across a large fleet of clusters.
  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Set the technical vision and roadmap for the next generation of Service Mesh and Identity, ensuring the platform remains reliable, observable, and self-healing at fleet scale.
  • You assess candidates on their ability to write effective prompts, evaluate AI outputs, and orchestrate multi-agent workflows, in addition to core technical skills
  • A related technical degree required
  • You use AI development tools hands-on, and you have the technical depth to judge the architecture and quality of AI-generated output
  • You have 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineering teams, with hands-on depth in Kubernetes, service mesh, networking (DNS, TLS, HTTP proxies), and a major public cloud
  • You have programming experience in Go or Python
  • You have used infrastructure-as-code and delivery tools such as Terraform and Argo
  • You have used observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or Elasticsearch
  • You have experience building AI multi-agent or retrieval-augmented generation systems, or leading open-source contribution strategy
Required Skills
software development Salesforce multi-cloud leadership service mesh roadmapping microservices process improvement Kubernetes TLS Python Terraform Prometheus Grafana Splunk Elasticsearch
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