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Software Engineering

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About Salesforce

Were Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good youve come to the right place.

Senior/Lead/Principal Data Engineer

Office hybrid in San Francisco, Dallas or Seattle

About The Role

Were building the product data platform that will power Salesforces next era of agentic intelligence delivering smarter, adaptive, and self-optimizing product experiences.

As a Full-Stack Data Engineer , youll design and build scalable systems that process hundreds of thousands of context-rich product signals. These signals fuel analytics, customer-facing products, ML models, and autonomous agents.

Youll Work On

Near real-time and batch telemetry pipelines for trusted signal capture Semantic layers and data products for reusable insights Programmatic discovery via metadata, MCP, and knowledge graphs

This isnt a typical data engineering role. Were looking for creative, systems-minded engineers working outside of the data engineer box, fluent in both data and AI , and excited to navigate ambiguity, cross boundaries, and drive real impact.

What Youll Do

Build and scale fault tolerant batch and streaming data pipelines using Spark, Trino, Flink, Kafka, DBT Design programmatic consumption layers to make product signals easy to define, discover, and reuse Apply software engineering best practices to data systems: testing, CI/CD, observability Evolve systems to support not just human analysis, but autonomous agent reasoning Contribute to a trusted data foundation powering decisions, AI agents, and adaptive products Collaborate across orgs with telemetry engineers, product leaders, data scientists, and AI builders

What Were Looking For

5+ years of experience in data engineering, with strong software engineering fundamentals Expertise with big data frameworks: Spark, Trino/Presto, DBT Experience with streaming systems like Flink and Kafka, incl. distribution strategy (topics & partitions) Solid understanding of semantic layers, data modeling, and metrics systems Experience with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS (e.g., S3, EMR, ECS, IAM), Containerization Bonus: fluency in AI data engineering patterns and tools like MCP Bonus: experience with knowledge graphs and modern metadata systems Bonus: experience with Snowflake Strong communicator and collaborator comfortable working across teams and domains Curious, pragmatic, and impact-driven mindset

Why Join Us

Help shape how Salesforce leads the digital labor revolution. Youll be at the heart of transforming raw product signals into intelligent decisions for everyone from engineers to sales reps to AI agents. If youre excited to design resilient, trusted, and intelligent systems at scale, wed love to hear from you.

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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.

For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $157,600 to $306,600.

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