Senior Director, Software Engineering - Slack Application Architecture and Systems
SlackSenior Director, Software Engineering - Slack Application Architecture and Systems
SlackLocation
remote, San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
Type
Full-time
Posted
11/7/2026
Compensation
$218,400 - $401,400 per year
Job description
The Senior Director of Engineering will lead the Application Architecture and Systems engineering organization at Salesforce, focusing on Slack's product infrastructure. This role involves overseeing shared client infrastructure, frameworks, and APIs across web, desktop, and mobile platforms. The candidate will be responsible for setting technical strategy and driving engineering excellence within a large, multi-disciplinary team. The position requires collaboration with Product and Design teams to ensure high performance and quality standards.
Requirements
- Significant experience leading product infrastructure engineering at a company with a complex, large-scale client application.
- Experience in client infrastructure, with depth in either web or mobile applications.
- A track record of leading large engineering organizations, including managing managers and coaching senior leaders.
- Ability to set technical strategy and collaborate with Product and Design to create a roadmap.
- A related technical degree.
Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering organization responsible for Slack's client infrastructure across web, desktop, and mobile.
- Define and drive the multi-year technical vision and roadmap for Slack's client infrastructure.
- Establish high standards for performance, reliability, quality, and craft in the team's work and culture.
- Reshape how client engineering teams build and ship to enhance speed without sacrificing quality.
- Steward the frameworks, components, design-system foundations, and internal client APIs that every Slack product team depends on.
- Make accessibility a first-class part of how Slack is built.
- Collaborate with executive peers in Product, Design, and Engineering to align priorities and resolve dependencies.
- Unite a distributed, hybrid organization into a cohesive, high-performing culture.
- Assess the organization, set strategy, and raise technical excellence and team performance within the first 60-90 days.
Benefits
- Employees at Slack, as part of Salesforce, are often offered comprehensive benefits focused on wellbeing and inclusion, including competitive health-care coverage, time off to rest, recharge and volunteer, and holistic programs that support mental health, family planning and overall work–life balance.
H-1B filing history
Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026
Filing entity: Salesforce Inc
As of Aug 23, 2026
Initial approvals
169
FY2026
Approval rate
97.2%
FY2026
LCA certified
1,585
FY2026
Entry-level share
0.2%
FY2026
Initial approvals YoY
+26%
Trend
LCA certified YoY
-21%
Trend
Initial approvals by fiscal year
Approval rate by fiscal year
Continuing vs initial approvals
LCA certified positions by quarter
LCA certified positions by fiscal year
Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.
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