
Lead Data Engineer
Salesforce
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Seattle • Illinois • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $189,100 - $260,100 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create and manage robust data solutions that support our analytics and business intelligence initiatives.
- Build scalable and efficient data pipelines, optimizing data workflows, and ensuring data quality and reliability.
- Act as the lead technical individual contributor for our Agentic AI ecosystem.
- Design and implement robust search indices that enable AI agents to perform complex retrievals across the Salesforce data ecosystem.
- Lead the hands-on creation of the semantic layer and embedding pipelines necessary for grounding Agentic AI in Customer Success data.
- Act as a technical pillar for a specialized team of data and AI engineers.
- Define the technical vision for agentic retrieval, aligning search strategy with the broader migration to Data Cloud.
- Establish and enforce rigorous technical standards for data quality, latency, and index freshness.
- Partner with Decision Scientists, Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Engineering Leaders to translate complex business needs into scalable, production-ready technical solutions.
- Lead high-impact efforts to automate the data delivery pipeline.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role.
- Proficiency in data engineering tools and languages, such as Python, SQL, and Spark.
- Strong understanding of database concepts, data modeling, and ETL processes with tools like Airflow, dbt, Informatica, etc.
- Experience with cloud-based data solutions (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Familiarity with data warehousing, SQL, NoSQL databases, and data integration techniques.
- Experience with the Salesforce Ecosystem, specifically Data Cloud.
- Problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a cross-functional environment.
- A related technical degree required.
Benefits
- time off programs
- medical
- dental
- vision
- mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLSparkETLdata modelingdata engineeringdata qualitydata pipelinesdata integrationsearch indices
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationleadership
Certifications
related technical degree