Software Engineering Director

Core Foundation Services group is a part of Hyperscale Core CRM Cloud in Hyderabad Center of Excellence, focused on services and frameworks for enabling HyperScale of our platform and applications. We own mission critical Distributed Caching Services as well as Asynchronous Processing Services completely out of our Hyderabad Center.

We provide a highly available and scalable distributed caching for Salesforce as well as our customers. This platform support trillions of transactions per day across multiple substrates including AWS. Architected on CNA principles, it s built to leverage OSS platforms like K8s, Service mesh and Spinnaker etc, and has multi year charter to meet ever increasing demands of scale, availability and ubiquitous adoption. We are looking for leaders who are technically strong and have a passion for leading teams in large scale distributed systems and own mission critical services in production to join our team at Hyderabad.

As a engineering leader of Distributed Caching Services, your responsibilities include

* Manage, hire and nurture world class team for Distributed Caching Services and technologies to enable HyperScaling of applications
* Drive execution and delivery by collaborating with cross functional teams, architects, product owners and engineers
* Be technically involved and work closely with product owner and architect to build the best in class services and systems at scale
* Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members
* Encourage ideas, have your point of view and lead with influence
* Make critical decisions, innovate aggressively while managing risk and ensure the success of the product
* Maintaining and fostering our culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals with an eye towards diversity
* Daily management of stand-ups as the ScrumMaster for no more than two engineering teams
* Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical acumen sharp

Experience/Skills required

* 5+ years experience leading software development projects with a distinguished track record on technically demanding products which have been released for wider consumption
* Service ownership experience of cloud based distributed services running at B2C scale
* Outstanding written and oral communication skills, including experience presenting to executive leadership and handling sensitive, critical issues.
* Experience working in scrum/agile development environment. Agile mindset, ability to iterate, take risks and evolve.
* A strong adherent to software engineering best practices which enable building world class products such as unit testing, modular code, right abstractions, continuous integration mindset etc
* Working knowledge of Kubernetes, service mesh and other modern technologies/services on public cloud is desirable
* Strong data structure and algorithms skills and extensive programming experience, preferably in Java/object oriented languages.