Salesforce · 20 hours ago
VP - Database Engineering
Washington - Seattle
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$282K/yr - $452K/yr
20+ years expSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. As Vice President of Salesforce Database Engineering, you will lead the organization responsible for evolving the mission-critical database platform that supports all core Salesforce traffic, ensuring reliability, performance, and security.
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Responsibilities
Define and own the long-term technical and organizational vision for Salesforce’s cloud-native database platform
Partner with Public Cloud and HyperForce leadership to enable Salesforce’s unified platform and applications across public clouds, including GCP
Set the roadmap for scalability, performance, durability, availability, and cost efficiency to support Salesforce’s current and future workloads
Lead the design, development, and evolution of a globally distributed, multi-tenant database system supporting all core Salesforce traffic
Drive architectural decisions across storage, replication, consistency models, failover, disaster recovery, and data durability
Collaborate closely with architects and product owners to build best-in-class database services and systems at scale
Ensure strong engineering fundamentals, including modular design, correct abstractions, automated testing, and continuous integration
Own SLAs for availability, latency, and durability of Salesforce’s database infrastructure
Lead database-related incident management for Sev-0 and Sev-1 events, including prevention, response, and post-incident learning
Champion automation, observability, and operational rigor to safely operate services at extreme scale
Drive execution by working across cross-functional teams spanning database engineering, public cloud infrastructure, HyperForce, SRE, and product engineering
Balance long-term architectural investments with short-term delivery commitments
Make critical technical and organizational decisions, innovating aggressively while managing operational risk
Hire, build, and scale a world-class, geographically distributed engineering organization
Mentor and grow senior engineers, architects, managers, and managers-of-managers
Establish clear expectations for technical leadership, ownership, and accountability
Foster an inclusive, high-performance culture with a strong emphasis on diversity and engineering excellence
Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive leadership and stakeholders
Represent Salesforce Database Engineering in executive planning, architecture reviews, and strategic initiatives
Encourage ideas, bring a strong point of view, and lead through influence as well as authority
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
20+ years of overall engineering experience, with 10+ years leading large, multi-level engineering organizations
Deep expertise in distributed systems, databases, or large-scale storage platforms
Proven experience owning and operating cloud-based, mission-critical services at B2C scale
Strong background in service ownership, operational excellence, and 24×7 production systems
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage both executives and deeply technical audiences
Preferred
Experience building or operating cloud-native, multi-tenant database platforms
Working knowledge of public cloud technologies (GCP, AWS, Azure) and large enterprise cloud migrations
Experience partnering with public cloud platform teams and enabling large-scale platform transitions
Strong grounding in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming
Agile mindset with experience operating in Scrum/Agile environments
Benefits
Time off programs
Medical
Dental
Vision
Mental health support
Paid parental leave
Life and disability insurance
401(k)
Employee stock purchasing program
Company
Salesforce
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65.38MKey Investors
Starboard ValueEmergence CapitalHalsey Minor
2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
2004-06-23IPO
2003-01-01Series Unknown· $1M
Leadership Team
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Chairman & Ceo Salesforce India
Kendall Collins
CEO, GovCloud - Salesforce
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