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Senior/Lead/Principal Data Engineer
Office hybrid in San Francisco, Dallas or Seattle
About the Role We're building the
product data platform
that will power Salesforce's next era of
agentic intelligence
- delivering smarter, adaptive, and self-optimizing product experiences.
As a
Full-Stack Data Engineer , you'll 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. You'll 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 isn't a typical data engineering role. We're 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 You'll 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 We're 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. You'll be at the heart of transforming raw product signals into intelligent decisions - for everyone from engineers to sales reps to AI agents. If you're excited to design resilient, trusted, and intelligent systems at scale, we'd 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.
For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,000 to $334,600. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Location:
United States
Salary:
$250,000 +
Category:
IT & Technology