Senior Manager, Software Engineering | Kubernetes Platform

Description Are you passionate about leading teams that operate infrastructure at scale? Do you thrive on overseeing Kubernetes clusters and microservices? Here is an exciting opportunity for you!

Our team provides Kubernetes platform-as-a-service to other teams building microservices at Salesforce. Over the next year, we will expand our Kubernetes footprint by thousands of clusters, and you could play a pivotal role in this transformation. As a manager, you will guide your team in working with open-source technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo, and Spinnaker, shaping the future of these technologies while fostering a culture of innovation.

We manage one of the largest Kubernetes fleets in the industry and have been early adopters of this technology. Our mission is to empower service owners to focus on the unique value of their services, enhancing developer agility while reducing operational costs and complexity. The FKP team is critical to the company’s strategy to move to Hyperforce, providing the underlying infrastructure for key services such as Sales, Service, Commerce, Mulesoft, and Tableau.

Responsibilities As the FKP Manager, you will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of software for managing Kubernetes clusters at scale. Your role will involve:

• Overseeing the creation of design documents and facilitating presentations to stakeholders.
• Managing the integration and evaluation of open-source technologies into the FKP software stack.
• Leading and mentoring a team of engineers, ensuring high-quality deliverables and fostering professional growth.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to align goals and strategies.

Required Skills

• A related technical degree required
• 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

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with one or more public cloud substrates e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP
• Experience with container orchestration systems Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience with open source projects like Kubernetes, Karpenter, Argo, Spinnaker, Terraform

Why Should You Join the FKP Team?

• Opportunity for Impact: Lead initiatives that significantly enhance our platform, positively impacting service teams across Salesforce.
• Innovative Technology: Work with and shape the future of growing open-source technologies like Kubernetes.
• Creative Freedom: Tackle complex issues at scale within distributed systems.
• Thought Leadership: Opportunity to write blogs and share the team’s success stories at conferences and open-source forums, such as:How Salesforce uses ArgoWorkflows for provisioning add-onsOperationalizing Kubernetes Sidecars in Production at SalesforceManaging Kubernetes Multitenant Clusters in Public Cloud at ScaleDeveloping a Synthetic Testing Framework for Continuous Monitoring of Kubernetes Mutating Webhooks