Sr. Software Manager - Network

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA +1

This role is for a Sr. Manager in the GCP Foundation - Network services team at Salesforce. The primary focus is on building, supporting, and growing Network Services for GCP, and enhancing developer productivity. The role involves planning and directing activities, collaborating with cross-functional teams, making critical decisions, and mentoring team members. While the company mentions AI and agentic capabilities, the core responsibilities of this specific role are centered around network services and team leadership within a software engineering context, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Empower the delivery team to self-prioritize. Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members’ success. Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members.
  2. Maintain high morale and motivate the delivery team to go above and beyond. Vocally advocate for technical excellence and help the teams make good decisions. Participate in architecture discussions and planning.
  3. Maintain and encourage company culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals. Occasionally chip in on development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product, as well as to keep technical competence sharp.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of industry experience
  • 3+ years in a people leadership role managing successful software engineering teams
  • Proven ability to manage stakeholders and relationships within a highly matrixed organizational structure
  • Proficiency in software development methodologies, technologies, and tools
  • Strong experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Strong knowledge of infrastructure and automation
  • Experience and passion for service ownership, building reliable, self-healing services
  • Experience working in a complex team environment
  • Experience with Scrum or other agile development methodologies

Nice to have

  • Awareness of Network Security services such as DDoS, EGress, DNS, CDN, and Networking fundamentals
  • Good programming background, ideally with experience in Go (Golang), Python, Java
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • strong organizational and time management abilities
  • Proven ability to navigate team dynamics, resolve conflicts, and facilitate career development discussions
  • Master’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or related field of study, and two (2) years of experience in job offered or in any occupation in related field OR Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or related field of study, and five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in job offered or in any occupation in related field
  • A related technical degree required (Computer Science, Engineering (any field))

What the JD emphasized

  • Network Security services such as DDoS, EGress, DNS, CDN
  • public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • infrastructure and automation
  • service ownership, building reliable, self-healing services
  • complex team environment
  • Scrum or other agile development methodologies
  • code quality and delivering secure code