Real‑Time Data Engineer, Forward Deployed

100 Salesforce, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 98,000 - 317,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers focused on Data 360, Salesforce’s real-time data engine that unifies data from any source. You will configure, build, test, and deploy Data 360 inside enterprise customer environments, writing SQL, Python, and Apex while delivering end-to-end solutions.

You will work with architects, deployment strategists, and customer technical teams to ensure solutions meet acceptance criteria, security, and operational readiness through production handoffs and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or technical implementation.

Responsibilities

• Build in customer environments.
• Engineer the data layer and ingestion pipelines.
• Design and implement data integration patterns including MCP-based protocols.
• Ground the AI data integration layer (RAG, vector databases, knowledge bases).

Skills

Software engineering

Data engineering

Salesforce Data 360

SQL

Apex

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Kafka

Cloud storage

MDM platform

Job description

Salesforce is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers focused on Data 360, Salesforce’s real-time data engine that unifies data from any source. You will configure, build, test, and deploy Data 360 inside enterprise customer environments, writing SQL, Python, and Apex while delivering end-to-end solutions.

You will work with architects, deployment strategists, and customer technical teams to ensure solutions meet acceptance criteria, security, and operational readiness through production handoffs and