Data 360 - Lead/ Principal Forward Deployed Engineer
Salesforce3 days ago
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesStaff+
Responsibilities
- Configure and develop Data 360 solutions in customer sandboxes and production environments using SQL, Apex, Flow, Python, APIs, Salesforce tooling, Git, Data Kits, and deployment tools.
- Build ingestion, harmonization, identity-resolution, data-integration, and data-materialization solutions across batch and streaming sources.
- Create representative test data and validate happy paths, edge cases, access boundaries, failure conditions, and customer-scale behavior.
- Build RAG, vector database, search-index, embedding, and knowledge-base integrations to ground Agentforce solutions.
- Design and implement MCP and agent-to-agent communication protocols and connect Agentforce with enterprise applications.
- Apply data governance, secure authentication and authorization, OAuth, SAML, message queues, event-driven architecture, and distributed-systems practices.
- Troubleshoot ingestion, schema, identity, query, latency, API, permission, and consumption issues using logs and query evidence.
- Document implementation tradeoffs, collaborate with customer teams and partners, support deployment and handoff, and surface product gaps to Product and Support.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or technical implementation, including production data-solution experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Hands-on Salesforce Data 360/Data Cloud or comparable enterprise data platform implementation experience.
- Experience building data pipelines and integrations with technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Kafka, cloud object storage, or enterprise MDM platforms.
- Proficiency in SQL and fluency in at least one of Apex, Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Understanding of data modeling, APIs, integration patterns, batch and streaming processing, and copied, federated, and Zero Copy data access.
- Experience building retrieval systems involving vector databases, search indexes, embedding pipelines, or knowledge bases.
- Experience implementing OAuth, SAML, event-driven architectures, secure data access, permissions, entitlements, consent, user context, and negative test cases.
- Ability to implement against documented architectures, diagnose technical problems methodically, and explain implementations to customer technical teams.
- Experience delivering alongside customers, partners, professional services, or internal implementation teams in deadline-driven environments.
- Relevant Salesforce Agentforce, Data 360, and Salesforce Platform certifications are preferred.
Benefits
- Salesforce states that its benefits and resources support balance and personal well-being; reasonable accommodations are available during the application or recruiting process.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Salesforce
Salesforce builds cloud-based customer relationship management software and a broader Customer 360 platform for sales, service, marketing, commerce, and analytics, sold by subscription to businesses and public-sector organizations. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE under the symbol CRM. Its portfolio includes Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, MuleSoft integration, Tableau analytics, and Slack for collaboration, with extensive developer tools and APIs.