Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Hyderabad, India, India

This role is for a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Salesforce, focusing on leading teams that build and integrate AI agents into customer workflows. The role emphasizes using AI tools in development, prompt engineering, and managing the delivery of AI-powered features. The manager will also contribute to shared system context for AI and evaluate AI-generated code.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many multi-functional teams, architects, product owners and engineer
  2. Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.
  3. Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
  4. Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.
  5. Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.

Skills

Required

  • 3 + years of proven track record leading software engineering teams
  • Experience leading large scale distributed systems, working with microservices and/or distributed architecture
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time management skills
  • Ability to be flexible, proactive, comfortable working with minimal specifications
  • Experience with short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and experience working on a product that’s been released for public consumption
  • Experience in hiring, mentoring and leading engineers
  • Working experience of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies. Scrum Master experience required
  • Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and product management to understand requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
  • A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering.
  • Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows.
  • Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.
  • A related technical degree required

Nice to have

  • Strong knowledge of Salesforce product and platform features, capab

What the JD emphasized

  • A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering.
  • Advanced prompt engineering skills
  • Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated)

Other signals

  • AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows
  • AI as a core part of your development workflow
  • advanced prompt engineering skills
  • shared system context for AI