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$183k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Salesforce
Salesforce is the world''s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, offering cloud-based software for sales, service, marketing, analytics, and application development. Industry: Enterprise Software & Cloud Computing
Salesforce currently has
221 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$148,500–$260,100
across 125 roles with salary data.
The Senior Manager, Software Engineering will lead the Foundations team, which manages the core infrastructure and platform for the Agentforce product area. This role involves growing the team from 7 to 12 engineers while overseeing cloud infrastructure, databases, deployment pipelines, observability, and production operations. You will drive technical strategy, architectural direction, and operational excellence to ensure platform reliability and scalability for AI-powered B2B products. Key responsibilities include hiring, performance management, and establishing predictable delivery timelines. The ideal candidate possesses deep fluency in AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and observability. Technical proficiency in Go, Python, TypeScript, or Ruby is required, along with experience operating SQL and RDBMS like PostgreSQL. You must also demonstrate expertise in agentic, AI-assisted development practices and incident response discipline.
What does a Software Engineering Manager earn in California?
Median $281300 from 43 postings across 15 companies.
Site Reliability Engineering
Kubernetes
Distributed Systems
Python
Go
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
AWS
Azure
GCP
OpenTelemetry
Infrastructure-as-Code
Linux
Networking
Observability
AI Agents
Capacity Management
Incident Management