Director of Software Engineering (San Francisco)

• The Salesforce Edge service provides a secure and compliant mechanism for this global user base to achieve better performance
• In addition to the ingress services, the Edge team is also responsible for the egress gateways that provide security and visibility into connections that go out of the data center
• We are looking for a people leader who can manage and drive the team doing the design and implementation of the service
• We intend to transform our current software stack to adopt more cloud native primitives to build a more reliable, scalable, and feature-rich delivery platform
• Our software stack is based on leading open source software projects like Nginx
• The opportunities to enhance the capabilities of the OSS software and contribute back to the community are immense
• We are looking to add experienced leader in distributed systems engineers who is passionate, hungry for new challenges, can step up and help deliver on that vision
• Experience managing team of passionate engineer including recruitment
• Experience and passion for service ownership, building reliable/self-healing services
• Experience working in a complex team environment. Able to deliver under pressure and dependency constraints
• Experience building large scale distributed systems, especially in cloud environments
• Familiar with public cloud services with AWS and Google Cloud Platform

Benefits

• Medical Care
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Savings
• Employee Assistance Programs
• With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year

Experience & Skills

• You have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
• Capable of driving and delivering thin slices of end-to-end functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops
• Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple datacenters
• Experience at Scrum or other agile development methodologies, with attention to code quality, delivering secure code
• Good knowledge with network technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, proxies, etc
• Excited by building reliable, self-healing services on unreliable hardware
• 9+ years of experience with at least 4 years of management experience
• Experience with live site / production service ownership
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a mission critical service
• Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Test-Driven Development
• Experience with distributed system design
• Experience with Golang, Java and/or C++ in a Linux/UNIX data center environment
• Experience with Networking - TCP, TLS, DNS