Principal Data Engineer - AI Platform & Real-Time Pipelines

salesforce.com, inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 314,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Principal Data Engineer for AgentExchange to serve as the chief data architect and technical authority powering our product analytics and AI platform. You will design, scale, and maintain enterprise-grade data infrastructure, real-time pipelines, and feature stores that feed high-stakes decision systems and autonomous agents.

Collaborating with decision scientists, software engineers, and product leaders, you will transform high-volume data streams into reliable

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on data engineering experience building enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Experience with data lakehouse architectures and real-time pipelines.
• Background in AI/LLMs, agentic workflows, and feature stores.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and scale foundational data platforms, lakehouses, and high-throughput pipelines for AgentExchange.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with decision scientists, software engineers, and product leaders.
• Set data governance, quality frameworks, lineage tracking, and reliability standards.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Distributed systems

AI infrastructure

Python/Scala/Java

SQL tuning

CI/CD & IaC

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related

Tools

Airflow

Dagster

Docker

Git

CI/CD tooling

IaC

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Principal Data Engineer for AgentExchange to serve as the chief data architect and technical authority powering our product analytics and AI platform. You will design, scale, and maintain enterprise-grade data infrastructure, real-time pipelines, and feature stores that feed high-stakes decision systems and autonomous agents.

Collaborating with decision scientists, software engineers, and product leaders, you will transform high-volume data streams into reliable