Director, Software Engineering - Big Data Platform & Storage

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Hyderabad, India

Director of Software Engineering for Salesforce's Big Data Platform & Storage team, focusing on leading engineering teams to architect, implement, and operate massive-scale big data storage platforms in both data centers and public clouds (AWS, GCP). The role emphasizes AI-driven development and operational excellence, team building, recruiting, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, and availability of critical data services.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. AI-Driven Development: Champion the use of AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor etc) to accelerate feature development, code review, test generation, and documentation.
  3. 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)
  4. 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.
  5. Be a subject matter expert for distributed systems, Big Data compute and storage systems and related technologies.

Skills

Required

  • 12+ years of relevant experience in software development
  • 3+ years of experience managing teams
  • Experience in recruiting and building great teams
  • Experience in Distributed Systems
  • Experience in NoSQL datastores
  • Experience in 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
  • Strong focus on Service Ownership with experience in defining Services SLOs/SLAs
  • Top notch written and oral communication skills

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • AI First
  • AI-driven
  • AI tools
  • AI coding assistants
  • AI-Driven Operational Excellence
  • AI Team Culture
  • AI CRM
  • AI agents
  • agentic era
  • Agentforce is the future of AI
  • AI First Engineering Leader
  • multi-petabyte HBase infrastructure
  • large scale org migrations
  • backup/restore
  • data lifecycle
  • system-of-record reliability
  • cloud infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • Big Data compute and storage systems
  • large scale services on the public cloud platforms
  • BigData open source technologies
  • Service Ownership
  • defining Services SLOs/SLAs