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Software Engineering
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The Experience
Location: San Francisco, CA or Palo Alto, CA
As Director, Cloud Engineering & Deployment Services, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for Tableau's continuous delivery platforms, cloud deployment services, and production engineering capabilities. Your team will enable secure, scalable, and seamless software releases while providing operational excellence for critical production services. By delivering world-class internal developer platforms, you will empower engineering teams to innovate faster while ensuring exceptional experiences for millions of Tableau customers. By fostering engineering excellence, operational efficiency, and cross-functional collaboration, you will help accelerate product delivery, improve developer productivity, and enhance customer trust and satisfaction.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
- Define and execute the technical vision and long-term roadmap for Tableau's cloud deployment and engineering platforms.
- Drive adoption of AI-powered engineering and AI-driven operations (AIOps) practices to improve automation, observability, operational efficiency, and developer productivity.
- Lead the evolution of scalable, secure cloud platforms and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) capabilities using platform engineering principles, enabling reliable software delivery and operational excellence.
- Partner with product management and engineering leadership to translate strategic priorities into executable roadmaps that deliver incremental customer value.
You're Our Person If...
- You have experience building, coaching, and inspiring high-performing engineering teams through servant leadership, accountability, and continuous growth.
- You bring deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, CI/CD platforms, observability, and modern cloud-native architectures.
- You communicate effectively across teams and leaders, with cross-organizational project experience in a large organization.
- You have 8+ years of industry experience in software as a service (SaaS) or large-scale systems, leading platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, developer productivity, development and operations (DevOps), or site reliability engineering (SRE) organizations, including 5+ years leading teams of 5+ engineers and 5+ years in a highly operational team with an on-call culture.
Even Better If...
- You know how to translate high-level strategic requirements into smaller stories teams can execute against for iterative development and releases, and can help prioritize bugs, feature work, and architectural enhancements.
- You have strong Agile practices along with an understanding of traditional project management concepts that ensure predictability, transparency, and accountability of deliverables.
- You have experience with public cloud platforms, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD automation, and observability platforms.
- You have a strong eye for talent and enjoy being part of the hiring process to help bring great people onto the team.
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $197,300 - $313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $237,700 - $344,700 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.