Senior Data Engineer, Enterprise Data Pipelines

Salesforce; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Enterprise team in McLean, VA, focusing on both batch and real-time data pipelines and GovSlack initiatives. You will partner with stakeholders, analytics, and backend engineers to drive data-centric decisions.

Ideal candidates have deep experience in data modeling, SQL, Python, and orchestration with Airflow, plus exposure to big data ecosystems. This role emphasizes reliability, governance, and scalable data foundations for enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data architecture, data modeling, master data management, or metadata management.
• Hands-on expertise with relational modeling approaches — including columnar, star schema, snowflake, and dimensional modeling.
• Proven track record optimizing schemas, tuning SQL, and scaling ETL pipelines in OLAP and data warehouse environments.
• Experience with Airflow or a comparable workflow orchestration platform for data pipeline management.

Responsibilities

• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, reusable data models that are easy to understand and adopted across subject areas
• Design, implement, and maintain data pipelines that deliver high-quality data under defined SLAs
• Partner with product, analytics, and engineering teams to build trusted, well-documented foundational datasets aligned with business strategy
• Champion data strategy across multiple teams and use cases, driving consistency and reliability at scale
• Expand access to core company metrics through strong technical and process foundations
• Identify, document, and promote data engineering best practices across Slack

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

SQL

Python

Airflow

Data governance

Communication

Tools

Spark SQL

AWS

Hadoop/Big Data

Flink

GCP/Azure

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Enterprise team in McLean, VA, focusing on both batch and real-time data pipelines and GovSlack initiatives. You will partner with stakeholders, analytics, and backend engineers to drive data-centric decisions.

Ideal candidates have deep experience in data modeling, SQL, Python, and orchestration with Airflow, plus exposure to big data ecosystems. This role emphasizes reliability, governance, and scalable data foundations for enterprise customers.