Salesforce Engineering Manager, Commercial Systems at Canonical

The role of a Salesforce Engineering Manager, Commercial Systems at Canonical

This engineering management role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and Ubuntu to build a career with Canonical and drive the success of the business. If you have an affinity for open source development, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.

The Commercial Systems unit has several areas of responsibility spread across six engineering teams, closely collaborating with other engineering and business teams at Canonical. Services designed, developed, and operated by the Commercial Systems unit are at the heart of Canonical business and Salesforce plays an integral role in it.

The Salesforce team is responsible for the development and configuration of Canonical’s Salesforce instance. The team’s mission is to deliver first-class experience to the Sales and business operations teams relying on Salesforce, while achieving the highest engineering standards expected of any engineering team at Canonical.

We are looking for an engineering manager with senior-level engineering experience in Salesforce, who strives for the highest engineering quality, seeks improvements, continuously develops their skills, and applies them at work. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a change, leverage the latest Salesforce features and best practices, and put them into practice, while keeping the Salesforce instance lean and maintainable.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

What your day will look like

• Lead a team of engineers delivering solutions leveraging the Salesforce platform
• Seek improvements to established processes, designs, and engineering solutions
• Collaborate on business analysis and technical designs
• Provide Salesforce subject matter expertise to business customers and cross-functional teams
• Deliver engineering solutions leveraging the Salesforce platform

What we are looking for in you

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related engineering field
• Experience with Salesforce development and integrations
• Experience as a hands-on engineering manager or a team lead
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Ability to collaborate remotely with a diverse set of team members and stakeholders, remain highly motivated, productive, and organized in a fully remote environment
• Ability to travel to international destinations for one week at a time, approximately 2-4 times per year. Locations prior to the global pandemic included New York, Seattle, London, Cape Town, Budapest, Berlin, Montreal, and Brussels

Additional skills that you might also bring

• Experience as a software developer in a high-level language - preferably Go or Python
• Experience in a business role such as sales, finance, or operations