VP Of Engineering Jobs in California
VP Of Engineering jobs in California are among the most actively recruited senior technology leadership roles in the country, concentrated in software, semiconductors, fintech, and enterprise infrastructure across the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Companies like Apple, Salesforce, and Qualcomm represent the anchor employers driving sustained demand for engineering executives who can lead large distributed teams and ship complex products. The most sought-after specialties in California are platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven product development. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.
Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
Salesforce is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead the next evolution of one of our flagship cloud platforms, an end-to-end enterprise platform that unifies critical business processes on the Salesforce platform.
This leader will own the technical vision, architecture, and execution for our next-generation intelligent platform — a scalable, intelligent, and extensible system that powers enterprise operations across multiple industries. You will lead a global team of engineers and architects, fostering innovation in areas such as AI-driven configuration, constraint modeling, orchestration, and industry extensibility.
The ideal candidate is a strategic engineering leader who combines technical excellence with deep product and domain understanding. Someone who can translate business outcomes into scalable engineering systems and inspire teams to deliver measurable customer success.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead Engineering Excellence: Drive the design, architecture, and delivery of high-quality, secure, and scalable enterprise software systems supporting complex business processes.
- Build and Scale Teams: Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional engineering talent. Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning across globally distributed teams.
- Champion the Product Vision: Lead the evolution of our platform, blending the best of Salesforce Core, AI/Agentic systems, and Industry Clouds to deliver a unified customer experience.
- Operational and Organizational Leadership: Implement best-in-class engineering management practices, ensuring predictable delivery, operational excellence, and engineering productivity at scale.
- Cross-Cloud and Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Design, Industry, Commerce, Data Cloud, and AI teams to deliver cohesive, customer-centered solutions.
- Customer-Centric Leadership: Engage directly with strategic customers to understand pain points, shape product direction, and ensure value realization through platform adoption.
- Technical Depth with Strategic Range: Guide architectural decisions, system design, and scalability strategies — while also representing the organization at the executive level and influencing product vision.
- Mentorship and Culture: Inspire and develop next-generation leaders; model servant leadership and create a culture that emphasizes quality, trust, inclusion, and innovation.
Minimum Requirements:
- Overall 20+ years experience and 10+ years of experience as a hands-on software development manager
- 6+ years engineering leadership of delivering world class software products/features
- 3+ years in cross-functional 2nd or 3rd level management roles
- Experience in building strong, successful technical teams and coaching and mentoring individuals along their career paths
- Ability to represent operational issues to senior leadership and dive deep into the technical details when required
- Ability to prioritize in a rapidly changing environment; communicate clearly to steer the strongly talented team to deliver a high quality service
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or Engineering
- AI and ML Engineering experience a plus
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
Accommodations
If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.
Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options.
Posting Statement
Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.
In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.
The typical base salary range for this position is $257,500 - $451,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $310,200 - $496,400 annually.
The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.
Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
Salesforce is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead the next evolution of one of our flagship cloud platforms, an end-to-end enterprise platform that unifies critical business processes on the Salesforce platform.
This leader will own the technical vision, architecture, and execution for our next-generation intelligent platform — a scalable, intelligent, and extensible system that powers enterprise operations across multiple industries. You will lead a global team of engineers and architects, fostering innovation in areas such as AI-driven configuration, constraint modeling, orchestration, and industry extensibility.
The ideal candidate is a strategic engineering leader who combines technical excellence with deep product and domain understanding. Someone who can translate business outcomes into scalable engineering systems and inspire teams to deliver measurable customer success.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead Engineering Excellence: Drive the design, architecture, and delivery of high-quality, secure, and scalable enterprise software systems supporting complex business processes.
- Build and Scale Teams: Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional engineering talent. Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning across globally distributed teams.
- Champion the Product Vision: Lead the evolution of our platform, blending the best of Salesforce Core, AI/Agentic systems, and Industry Clouds to deliver a unified customer experience.
- Operational and Organizational Leadership: Implement best-in-class engineering management practices, ensuring predictable delivery, operational excellence, and engineering productivity at scale.
- Cross-Cloud and Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Design, Industry, Commerce, Data Cloud, and AI teams to deliver cohesive, customer-centered solutions.
- Customer-Centric Leadership: Engage directly with strategic customers to understand pain points, shape product direction, and ensure value realization through platform adoption.
- Technical Depth with Strategic Range: Guide architectural decisions, system design, and scalability strategies — while also representing the organization at the executive level and influencing product vision.
- Mentorship and Culture: Inspire and develop next-generation leaders; model servant leadership and create a culture that emphasizes quality, trust, inclusion, and innovation.
Minimum Requirements:
- Overall 20+ years experience and 10+ years of experience as a hands-on software development manager
- 6+ years engineering leadership of delivering world class software products/features
- 3+ years in cross-functional 2nd or 3rd level management roles
- Experience in building strong, successful technical teams and coaching and mentoring individuals along their career paths
- Ability to represent operational issues to senior leadership and dive deep into the technical details when required
- Ability to prioritize in a rapidly changing environment; communicate clearly to steer the strongly talented team to deliver a high quality service
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or Engineering
- AI and ML Engineering experience a plus
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
Accommodations
If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.
Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options.
Posting Statement
Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.
In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.
The typical base salary range for this position is $257,500 - $451,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $310,200 - $496,400 annually.
The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
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- Technology & Software
- Fintech
- Manufacturing
- Law & Legal Services
- Construction & Real Estate
What California Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in VP of engineering jobs across California.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Ten or more years of progressive engineering leadership experience including director-level management
- Proven ability to build and scale engineering organizations across multiple California product teams
- Deep expertise in cloud platforms, distributed systems, or semiconductor design relevant to California markets
- Experience partnering with product and go-to-market teams in a high-growth California technology company
- Strong executive communication skills with a record of influencing C-suite and board-level stakeholders
VP Of Engineering Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a vp of engineering in California?
Most vp of engineering roles in California require a technical degree followed by a career progression through individual contributor, engineering manager, director, and senior director positions before the VP level is within reach. California's technology industry rewards engineers who combine hands-on technical credibility with organizational leadership, so candidates who have managed multi-team organizations, driven architectural decisions, and delivered products at scale are most competitive. No state-issued license is required for the role itself.
How much do VP of engineerings make in California?
VP of engineerings in California earn a median of about $210,280 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $137,900 for the lowest 10% to over $296,130 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire vp of engineerings in California?
Employers hiring vp of engineerings in California right now include AXS, ORB, and Cisco, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. California's density of technology headquarters, from large enterprise software companies in the Bay Area to defense and semiconductor firms in Southern California, means the employer landscape covers a wide range of engineering domains and company stages.
Which California cities have the most vp of engineering jobs?
San Francisco, Palo Alto, and San Diego have the most vp of engineering openings in California. The Bay Area leads because of its concentration of technology headquarters and late-stage startups, while Los Angeles draws demand from media technology, aerospace, and consumer software companies, and San Diego is anchored by telecommunications, biotech, and defense engineering employers.
Are there remote vp of engineering jobs in California?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 75% of vp of engineering openings tied to California are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting how broadly technology leadership roles have shifted toward distributed work. The parts of the role most compatible with remote arrangements are team strategy, hiring, architecture review, and cross-functional collaboration, while board presentations and major product launches often still require in-person presence.
How can I get hired as a vp of engineering in California with little or no experience?
The most realistic path is building toward the VP level by first securing an engineering manager or director role at a California company, then demonstrating organizational growth and product impact over several years. Large California technology employers often hire directors of engineering from strong individual contributor or tech lead backgrounds through internal promotion pipelines. Candidates who hold relevant certifications in cloud architecture or security and who have led cross-functional initiatives, even at smaller California companies or startups, position themselves well for VP consideration.
Where can I find and apply to vp of engineering jobs in California?
You can find and apply to vp of engineering jobs in California on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from California employers. Search the listings to find roles that match your background and apply directly to the ones that fit.
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