Senior Forward Deployed Data Engineer – Real-Time Ingest

Salesforce.com; Dubai; On-site; AED 380,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce.com is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers focused on Data 360 to implement in real enterprise environments, writing SQL, Python and Apex, and building ingestion pipelines with identity resolution. You will ship working implementations from sandbox through production in customer environments.

You have 8+ years of software or data engineering experience, a CS degree, and hands-on Data 360 or similar platforms across ingestion, modeling, and activation.

Qualifications

• Production implementation experience required.
• Builder mindset non-negotiable.
• Hands-on technical builder in Salesforce Data 360 deployments across ingestion, modeling, identity, insight, activation, and operations.
• Experience implementing Salesforce Data 360 or comparable enterprise data platform.

Responsibilities

• Build in customer environments using Data 360 configuration SQL Apex Flow Python and the REST Query API.
• Engineer the data layer for ingestion harmonization and identity resolution across batch and streaming sources.
• Prove it works by creating representative test data and validating outcomes across happy paths and edge cases.
• Ground the agents by designing AI data integration layers and MCP protocol usage.
• Connect the ecosystem with secure data integration patterns and scalable workflows.
• Govern data with secure integration, transformation and governance across Salesforce CRM and external systems.
• Debug ingestion failures, mapping defects, schema drift, and API errors with thorough log analysis.
• Own implementation decisions and recommend maintainable solutions to architects.
• Accelerate with AI using Data 360 APIs and MCP to automate build processes.
• Co-build and hand off with customer teams, pairing reviews and runbooks for reproducibility.

Skills

SQL

Python

Apex

Data engineering

Ingestion pipelines

Identity resolution

Testing & debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Salesforce DX CLI

REST Query API

Data Kits

Git

Job description

Salesforce.com is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers focused on Data 360 to implement in real enterprise environments, writing SQL, Python and Apex, and building ingestion pipelines with identity resolution. You will ship working implementations from sandbox through production in customer environments.

You have 8+ years of software or data engineering experience, a CS degree, and hands-on Data 360 or similar platforms across ingestion, modeling, and activation.