Data 360 Forward Deployed Engineer (Spain)

Salesforce, Inc.; Madrid; On-site; EUR 107,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers focused on Data 360, Salesforce’s real-time data engine that unifies data from multiple sources.

You will be a hands-on builder configuring, testing, and deploying Data 360 inside enterprise environments, turning approved designs into working implementations across ingestion, harmonization, identity, insights, and activation. In this role you will work with a delivery team of architects, deployment strategists, and customer technical teams

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or technical implementation.
• 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.
• Hands-on experience building data pipelines and integrations using enterprise data platforms or technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Kafka, cloud object storage, or an enterprise MDM platform.
• Proficient in SQL and able to build, debug, and optimize multi-table queries, joins, filters, transformations, and validation checks.
• Fluent in at least one enterprise delivery language – Apex, Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript – and willing to learn others as needed.
• Understanding of data modeling, APIs, and integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Build in customer environments, configuring and developing in sandboxes and production using Data 360 configuration, SQL, Apex, Flow, Python, REST API, and deployment tooling.
• Engineer the data layer by building ingestion, harmonization, and identity resolution across batch and streaming sources.
• Prove the implementation works by creating representative test data and validating outcomes across happy paths, edge cases, and large volumes.
• Ground the agents with the AI data integration layer, including RAG, vector databases, search indexes, and knowledge bases.
• Design and implement protocols for agent communication (MCP and agent-to-agent) to enable efficient collaboration.
• Connect Data 360 solutions to enterprise applications and enable secure data integration across systems.
• Govern data security, transformations, and governance across Salesforce CRM, Data Cloud, and external systems.
• Build scalable, secure data workflows with authentication/authorization protocols (OAuth, SAML).
• Troubleshoot ingestion failures, mapping defects, schema drift, identity anomalies, and API errors with debugging and logs.

Skills

SQL

Apex

Python

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Data modeling

APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Salesforce Data 360

Salesforce DX

MCP

Snowflake

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers focused on Data 360, Salesforce’s real-time data engine that unifies data from multiple sources.

You will be a hands-on builder configuring, testing, and deploying Data 360 inside enterprise environments, turning approved designs into working implementations across ingestion, harmonization, identity, insights, and activation. In this role you will work with a delivery team of architects, deployment strategists, and customer technical teams