Director, Software Engineering - Security Asset Inventory Platform

Salesforce
Bengaluru
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Supply Chain & LogisticsExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Coaching","Mentoring","Stakeholder management","Strategic thinking"]

Lead Salesforce’s Bangalore security engineering team within Trust and Infrastructure, driving the design, development, and operation of large-scale distributed security systems. Build and grow a high-performance team (~10 engineers), establish engineering best practices, and ensure operational readiness with monitoring and safe change compliance. Own technical strategy and a 2–3 year roadmap for security infrastructure, partnering across Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, Compliance, and executives.

Loading

Loading job details...

Preparing the role view and application actions.

FursaFursa
Salesforce
Salesforce
13 hours ago

Director, Software Engineering - Security Asset Inventory Platform

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI
Last checked: 13 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Lead Salesforce’s Bangalore security engineering team within Trust and Infrastructure, driving the design, development, and operation of large-scale distributed security systems. Build and grow a high-performance team (~10 engineers), establish engineering best practices, and ensure operational readiness with monitoring and safe change compliance. Own technical strategy and a 2–3 year roadmap for security infrastructure, partnering across Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, Compliance, and executives.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Supply Chain & Logistics
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the Bangalore security engineering team (~10 engineers) and define technical strategy to protect Salesforce Commercial and Government Cloud environments.
  • •Drive the design, development, and operation of large-scale distributed security systems, ensuring reliability and maintainability.
  • •Establish engineering best practices and operational rigor, including monitoring, alerting, observability, and 24x7 operational readiness and safe change compliance.
  • •Deliver complex cross-functional, multi-quarter projects by breaking down ambiguous problems, managing dependencies/risks, and aligning stakeholders on execution.
  • •Define a 2–3 year technical vision and roadmap for security infrastructure, making sound architecture and technology investment decisions while anticipating threats and trends.

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading engineering teams at senior/director level.
  • •Proven track record building high-performance teams with measurable delivery impact.
  • •Success driving cross-company initiatives in complex, matrixed organizations.
  • •Deep expertise designing and operating large-scale distributed systems (e.g., event-driven architectures, microservices patterns, replication/sharding).
  • •Strong programming and database expertise (SQL/NoSQL, data architecture, and integration patterns) with experience building scalable, observable security telemetry/asset inventory systems.
Experience:12+ yearsSecurity engineeringDistributed systemsCloud securitySecurity telemetryDevOps/SRE
Skills:LeadershipCoachingMentoringStakeholder managementStrategic thinking
Tech Stack:PythonGoJavaSQLNoSQLMicroservicesEvent-driven architectureDistributed consensusShardingReplicationService meshDistributed tracingLoggingMetrics aggregationAI/MLAnomaly detectionInfrastructure-as-codeContainerizationOrchestrationData partitioning

Company Brief

Salesforce
Provides a leading cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform with sales, service, marketing, analytics, and integration tools that empower businesses to manage customer relationships and digital transformation at scale.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 1999
Glassdoor
Glassdoor: 4.1
WebsiteLinkedInGlassdoor