Director, Software Engineering - Big Data Platform & Storage

Salesforce is hiring a Director, Software Engineering - Big Data Platform & Storage in India - Hyderabad.

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Responsibilities

• AI Team Culture: Create a culture where engineers actively use AI tools as a force multiplier, for research, spike work as well as day to day sprint work.

• AI-Driven Development: Champion the use of AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor etc) to accelerate feature development, code review, test generation, and documentation.

• AI-Driven Operational Excellence: Partner with engineers and infrastructure teams to identify and automate high-frequency operational work (on-call runbooks, Day 2 operations, monitoring and alerting)

• Define and drive the vision for your teams; with a focus on AI, Customer Success, Feature delivery, Service Ownership, Availability and Scalability; and Ease of Use.

• Be a subject matter expert for distributed systems, Big Data compute and storage systems and related technologies.

• Build and lead a team of engineers to deliver reliable, scalable and secure big data services for various business needs.

• Drive execution and delivery by collaborating with cross functional teams, architects, product owners and engineers.

• Setup engineering best practices and tooling to improve CI/CD and Code Quality for your teams.

• Invest in continuous employee development for a high caliber team by mentoring and coaching engineers and technical leads in your teams.

• Invest in employee wellbeing and lead with empathy.

• Recruit and attract top talent.

Requirements

• B.E. / B. Tech in Computer Sciences or equivalent field.

• 12+ years of relevant experience in software development with 3+ years of experience managing teams

• Experience in recruiting and building great teams.

• Experience in Distributed Systems, NoSQL datastores and/or data processing techniques in big data.

• Experience building and operating large scale services on the public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure

• Experience in BigData open source technologies like Phoenix, HBase, Hadoop, Kafka, MongoDB, Spark, Presto, Hive, Airflow.

• Experience providing mentorship, technical leadership, and guidance to team members.

• Strong customer service orientation and a desire to help others succeed.

• Strong focus on Service Ownership with experience in defining Services SLOs/SLAs

• Top notch written and oral communication skills.

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