Salesforce Senior/Lead/Principal Data Engineer 

United States, California, San Francisco 

369310574

Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

Senior/Lead/PrincipalData Engineer

• 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

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

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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Posting Statement

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.