Director, Software Engineering - Security Asset Inventory Platform
Salesforce · Posted Sep 15
Customer relationship management, cloud computing, enterprise software, and artificial intelligence solutions
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About the role
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM. We are seeking an experienced Director of Software Engineering to lead our Bangalore-based security engineering team within the Trust and Infrastructure organization. You will drive the design, development, and operation of large-scale distributed security systems that protect Salesforce's Commercial and Government Cloud environments. Our team owns critical security infrastructure including endpoint protection, vulnerability scanning, cloud security posture management, intrusion detection, and infrastructure guardrails—protecting thousands of hosts and cloud resources serving millions of customers globally.
What you will do
- Build and maintain high-morale, high-performing teams
- Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, and career development
- Create inclusive, psychologically safe environments
- Drive performance management (recognize excellence, address underperformance)
- Attract and retain top engineering talent
- Establish engineering best practices and operational rigor
- Build highly reliable, maintainable distributed systems
- Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability
- Ensure 24x7 operational readiness and safe change compliance
- Balance technical debt with feature velocity while executing with urgency
- Deliver complex, cross-functional projects on time with quality
- Prioritize ruthlessly to focus teams on highest-impact work
- Break down ambiguous problems into executable plans
- Manage dependencies, risks, and stakeholder expectations
- Drive accountability and maintain delivery momentum
- Define compelling 2-3 year technical vision for security infrastructure
- Translate business goals into executable technical roadmaps
- Make sound architectural and technology investment decisions
- Anticipate security threats and technology trends
- Act as a thought leader in distributed systems security
- Communicate with exceptional clarity (written and verbal) to all audiences, from engineers to executives
- Manage stakeholders across Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, Compliance, and executive leadership
- Drive cross-company initiatives spanning multiple organizations and geographies
- Influence without authority to build coalitions and drive consensus
- Make decisions under ambiguity with strong executive presence
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 12+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading engineering teams at senior/director level
- Proven track record building high-performance teams with measurable delivery impact
- Success driving cross-company initiatives in complex, matrixed organizations
- Deep expertise designing and operating large-scale distributed systems:
- Distributed consensus, event-driven architectures, microservices patterns
- Data partitioning, sharding, replication strategies
- Service mesh architectures and inter-service communication
- Distributed tracing, logging, metrics aggregation
- Strong programming skills in 2+ languages (Python, Go, Java, etc)
- Database expertise (SQL, NoSQL, data warehouses, search)
- Deep expertise in database systems and data architecture: designing schemas, optimizing queries, ensuring compliance, and maintaining data integrity across multiple data sources in distributed environments
- Experience managing complex data pipelines aggregating security telemetry from 50+ sources while maintaining data integrity, deduplication, and correlation at scale
- Track record building and scaling integration platforms while maintaining data consistency, security, and observability
- Proven ability to design data models and integration patterns for asset inventory systems that maintain accuracy and freshness across diverse data sources
- Proficiency with AI/ML for security automation, anomaly detection, and infrastructure optimization
- Deep understanding of cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and orchestration
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with ability to influence senior leadership
- Exceptional stakeholder management and prioritization skills
- Demonstrated strategic thinking with ability to execute multi-year technical vision
- Comfortable navigating difficult conversations and driving alignment
- Willingness to maintain overlapping hours with US teams 2-3 times per week
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Salesforce
Salesforce, Inc. is a leading global cloud-based enterprise software company specializing in customer relationship management (CRM) and artificial intelligence solutions. Through its integrated Customer 360 platform, the company provides applications for sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, and analytics. Powered by innovations like Agentforce, Salesforce helps businesses bridge human capability with autonomous AI agents to drive customer success.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 87000+ employees
- Founded
- 1999
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $25B raised
- 2026-03Post-IPO Debt$25B
- 2003-01Venture Round$1M
- 2001-06Series D$46.9M
- 1999-11Series C$13.2M
- 1999-06Series B$3.8M
Leadership
Chair, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
President & Chief Operating and Financial Officer
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Slack
President & Chief Strategy Officer
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