Sales Systems Engineer: Enterprise GTM Orchestrator

Perplexity; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity in Austin seeks a Sales Systems Engineer to own the technical layer under our enterprise sales motion. You will run CPQ, account and lead scoring, data orchestration, and the integrations that connect Salesforce, Snowflake, and the rest of our GTM stack.

This is a builder role. You will write SQL in Snowflake, configure CPQ rules, ship Python scripts, and ensure the seller experience scales from today to a billion-dollar ARR.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Sales Systems, RevOps Engineering, Salesforce engineering, or Enterprise Systems at a high-growth SaaS company.
• Deep Salesforce expertise: flows, formula fields, validation rules, custom objects, sharing model, Apex if needed.
• Hands-on CPQ experience (Salesforce CPQ, Stripe Billing, Maxio, or similar) including pricing, approvals, and quote generation.
• Strong SQL. Production-grade Snowflake queries and dbt-style transformation logic.
• Production experience with reverse ETL (Polytomic, Hightouch, Census) and iPaaS (Workato, Tray, Zapier at scale).
• Comfort with REST APIs, webhooks, and scripting in Python or JavaScript.
• A bias for building. You have shipped custom solutions when the vendor option was wrong.

Responsibilities

• CPQ: Quote-to-cash configuration, product catalog, pricing rules, approval workflows, discount governance, contract generation.
• Scoring: Account scoring, lead scoring, PLG activation scoring, intent signal aggregation. Build and maintain scoring models in Snowflake, push scores to Salesforce via reverse ETL.
• Data orchestration: Polytomic, Hightouch, and Workato pipelines that move data across Snowflake, Salesforce, NetSuite, Apollo, Unify, and the rest of the stack.
• Salesforce engineering: Flows, validation rules, formula fields, custom objects, Apex when needed, Lightning page configuration, permission sets, sandbox management.
• Integrations: API-level integration work across our GTM tools. Build custom connectors when off-the-shelf does not cut it.
• Routing and ownership: Account routing logic, opportunity assignment rules, territory management, ROE enforcement.
• Reporting infrastructure: Snowflake models that power pipeline, forecast, comp, and exec reporting. Partner with Analytics on the visualization layer.

Skills

Sales Systems

RevOps Engineering

Salesforce engineering

Enterprise SaaS

CPQ

SQL

Snowflake

dbt

Python

JavaScript

Tools

Salesforce CPQ

Stripe Billing

Maxio

Polytomic

Hightouch

Census

Workato

Tray

Zapier

Snowflake

dbt

Job description

Perplexity in Austin seeks a Sales Systems Engineer to own the technical layer under our enterprise sales motion. You will run CPQ, account and lead scoring, data orchestration, and the integrations that connect Salesforce, Snowflake, and the rest of our GTM stack.

This is a builder role. You will write SQL in Snowflake, configure CPQ rules, ship Python scripts, and ensure the seller experience scales from today to a billion-dollar ARR.