Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Missionforce

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Bangalore, India, India

This role is for a Senior Manager of Software Engineering focused on AI within Salesforce's Agentforce. The manager will lead software engineering teams, drive the execution and delivery of features, and ensure AI agents are integrated into human workflows. Key responsibilities include managing teams, making critical decisions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and building high-quality, production-grade software with AI as a core part of the development workflow. The role requires an AI-first approach to engineering, experience using AI tools, advanced prompt engineering skills, and experience leading software engineering teams and large-scale distributed systems.

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. Make critical decisions that attribute to the success of the product
  3. Proactive in foreseeing issues and resolving it before it happens
  4. Daily management of stand-ups as the Scrum Master for engineering teams
  5. Partner with PO to align with objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, and risk

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • 3 + years of proven track record leading software engineering teams with a distinguished track record on technically fast paced projects
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Strong knowledge of Salesforce product and platform features

What the JD emphasized

  • AI as a core part of your development workflow
  • AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows
  • 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
  • Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated)