Senior Engineering Manager, Core Services

Salesforce

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Atlanta, GASeattle, WASan Francisco, CA
Salary
$172,500–$260,100 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
20 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Nov 30, 2026

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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

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TL;DR · Senior Engineering Manager, Core Services

The Sr. Engineering Manager, Core Services - Slack joins the Core Services engineering team to maintain high-throughput infrastructure that ensures Slack remains fast and reliable at massive scale. This role involves owning the technical roadmap for critical systems, including Edge Caches, Realtime Services, Enterprise Key Management, International Data Residency, and Image Proxying. You will lead a multi-system migration from Flannel to Loom while managing on-call operations, incident response, and sprint planning for Tier 0 services. The position requires expertise in distributed systems, caching, and event-driven architectures. Key technologies include Go, Java, and PHP/Hack, alongside AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, and container-based deployments. You will solve complex problems regarding global data residency compliance, high availability, and cost management for millions of daily events.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Washington?

Median $268200 from 37 postings across 10 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the technical direction and roadmap for the Core Services portfolio, including Edge Caches and Realtime Services.
  • Lead the multi-system migration from Flannel to Loom while maintaining full reliability for millions of users.
  • Drive team execution through sprint planning, product launches, incident follow-ups, and operational sustainability analyses.
  • Manage on-call operations and incident response for Tier 0 services, including triage and runbook improvements.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Compliance, and Security teams to resolve dependencies and coordinate launches.
  • Build and present business-and-technical cases for team investments and infrastructure costs to executive leadership.
  • Manage team performance, hiring, and mentorship while fostering a high-trust engineering culture.
  • Monitor AWS spend trends and implement cost-saving initiatives for high-scale distributed systems.

What we're looking for

  • Led engineering teams for 5+ years building and operating high-scale, high-availability backend infrastructure or distributed systems.
  • Possess strong software engineering fundamentals with previous experience as a Senior+ backend engineer.
  • Experience managing Tier 0 / Tier 1 services, including owning on-call rotations and leading incident response.
  • Experience with realtime messaging systems or event-driven architectures at scale.
  • Experience leading multi-quarter migration or platform evolution projects while maintaining existing system reliability.
  • Experience managing engineers across multiple time zones using an asynchronous communication rhythm.
  • Experience with Go and/or Java programming languages at scale (preferred).
  • Experience with AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, or highly regulated environments like FedRAMP/NIST (preferred).

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