Senior Data Platform Engineer - AI & Analytics

Salesforce, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 197,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Staff or Senior Staff engineer to build the Agentic Analytics infra for Slack. You will shape technical direction, move from early prototypes to production, and work across ingestion, infrastructure, semantic layers, and interfaces to humans and AI agents.

Your work will span data engineering, data science, product teams, and core infrastructure to accelerate impactful analytics. You will drive architecture, implement scalable solutions, and mentor engineers while

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating a data platform.
• Clear ability to lead complex technical projects across teams as an IC.
• Strong software engineering skills with deep data expertise.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive data platform architecture for AI-enabled analytics.
• Build data pipelines and APIs for agents; ensure data accuracy and reliability.
• Lead production rollout and adoption; mentor engineers and set best practices.
• Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and product partners.

Skills

Data platform experience

Strong software engineering

Technical communication

Python/Go/Java

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Databricks

sqlmesh

Datahub

Superset

Snowflake

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Staff or Senior Staff engineer to build the Agentic Analytics infra for Slack. You will shape technical direction, move from early prototypes to production, and work across ingestion, infrastructure, semantic layers, and interfaces to humans and AI agents.

Your work will span data engineering, data science, product teams, and core infrastructure to accelerate impactful analytics. You will drive architecture, implement scalable solutions, and mentor engineers while