D360 Forward Deployed Engineer
Salesforce4 days ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Configure, develop, test, deploy, and stabilize Data 360 implementations in customer sandboxes and production environments.
- Build ingestion, harmonization, identity-resolution, data integration, and activation workflows across batch and streaming sources.
- Create retrieval systems using RAG, vector databases, search indexes, embedding pipelines, and knowledge bases to ground Agentforce solutions.
- Design and implement MCP, agent-to-agent, event-driven, authentication, authorization, and service-to-service integration patterns.
- Validate security, permissions, entitlements, consent, user context, restricted populations, edge cases, failures, and customer-scale volumes.
- Troubleshoot ingestion, schema, identity, query, API, permissions, latency, and consumption issues using logs and query evidence.
- Work directly with customer technical teams, partners, architects, and account teams; support deployment, handoff, documentation, and early stabilization.
- Surface reproducible platform gaps and edge cases to Product and Support.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or technical implementation, including a production data solution.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Hands-on experience implementing Salesforce Data 360/Data Cloud or a comparable enterprise data platform across ingestion, modeling, identity, insight, activation, and operations.
- 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 AI retrieval systems, including vector databases, search indexes, embedding pipelines, or knowledge bases.
- Experience implementing OAuth, SAML, event-driven architectures, MCP, and agent-to-agent communication.
- Ability to diagnose technical problems methodically, implement against documented architectures, and recognize when architect or security-owner involvement is needed.
- 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.
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.