Director, Software Engineering - Security Asset Inventory Platform

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Software Engineering

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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Director of Software Engineering to lead our Bangalore-based security engineering team within the Trust and Infrastructure organization. You will drive the design, development, and operation of large-scale distributed security systems that protect Salesforce's Commercial and Government Cloud environments.

As a thought leader in security engineering, you will build a high-performance team of ~10 engineers, define technical strategy, manage stakeholder relationships across the company, and drive cross-company security and engineering initiatives. This position requires overlapping work hours with US-based teams 2-3 times per week.

About the Team

Our organization is responsible for security controls across Salesforce's Commercial and Government Cloud environments. We own critical security infrastructure including endpoint protection, vulnerability scanning, cloud security posture management, intrusion detection, and infrastructure guardrails - protecting thousands of hosts and cloud resources serving millions of customers globally

The Impact You'll Make -

Organizational Health

Build and maintain high-morale, high-performing teams

Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, and career development

Create inclusive, psychologically safe environments

Drive performance management (recognize excellence, address underperformance)

Attract and retain top engineering talent

Operational & Engineering Excellence

Establish engineering best practices and operational rigor

Build highly reliable, maintainable distributed systems

Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability

Ensure 24x7 operational readiness and safe change compliance

Balance technical debt with feature velocity while executing with urgency

Project Execution

Deliver complex, cross-functional projects on time with quality

Prioritize ruthlessly to focus teams on highest-impact work

Break down ambiguous problems into executable plans

Manage dependencies, risks, and stakeholder expectations

Drive accountability and maintain delivery momentum

Strategy, Roadmap & Long-Term Vision

Define compelling 2-3 year technical vision for security infrastructure

Translate business goals into executable technical roadmaps

Make sound architectural and technology investment decisions

Anticipate security threats and technology trends

Act as a thought leader in distributed systems security

Leadership & Influence

Communicate with exceptional clarity (written and verbal) to all audiences, from engineers to executives

Manage stakeholders across Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, Compliance, and executive leadership

Drive cross-company initiatives spanning multiple organizations and geographies

Influence without authority to build coalitions and drive consensus

Make decisions under ambiguity with strong executive presence

Required Qualifications

Experience

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

Technical Expertise

Deep expertise designing and operating large-scale distributed systems:

Distributed consensus, event-driven architectures, microservices patterns

Data partitioning, sharding, replication strategies

Service mesh architectures and inter-service communication

Distributed tracing, logging, metrics aggregation

Strong programming skills in 2+ languages (Python, Go, Java, etc)

Database expertise (SQL, NoSQL, data warehouses, search)

Deep expertise in database systems and data architecture: designing schemas, optimizing queries, ensuring compliance, and maintaining data integrity across multiple data sources in distributed environments

Experience managing complex data pipelines aggregating security telemetry from 50+ sources while maintaining data integrity, deduplication, and correlation at scale

Track record building and scaling integration platforms while maintaining data consistency, security, and observability

Proven ability to design data models and integration patterns for asset inventory systems that maintain accuracy and freshness across diverse data sources

Proficiency with AI/ML for security automation, anomaly detection, and infrastructure optimization

Deep understanding of cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and orchestration

Leadership & Communication

Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with ability to influence senior leadership

Exceptional stakeholder management and prioritization skills

Demonstrated strategic thinking with ability to execute multi-year technical vision

Comfortable navigating difficult conversations and driving alignment

Logistics

Willingness to maintain overlapping hours with US teams 2-3 times per week

Preferred Qualifications

Asset inventory, ownership, and metadata integrations experience

Security engineering experience (endpoint protection, vulnerability management, CSPM)

DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure automation background

Experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP, DoD IL5, SOC2)

Managing distributed teams across geographies

Thought leadership via conference talks, publications, or open-source contributions

Chaos engineering and distributed system debugging experience

Leading large-scale, multi-quarter cross-company initiatives

Unleash Your Potential

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