Salesforce · 5 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer, Data Platform
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$184K/yr - $253K/yr
8+ years expSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to modernize their core data ecosystem and build scalable data pipelines, optimizing high-scale distributed systems to enable AI and analytics across the enterprise.
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Responsibilities
Build & Ship: Design and implement scalable data pipelines and transformation logic using Snowflake (SQL) and dbt. Replace legacy hardcoded scripts with modular, testable, and reusable data components
Orchestration: Engineer robust workflows in Airflow. Write custom Python operators and ensure DAGs are dynamic, factory-generated, and resilient to failure
Performance Tuning: Own the performance of your datasets. Deep dive into query profiles, optimize pruning/clustering in Snowflake, and reduce credit consumption while improving data freshness
Infrastructure as Code: Manage the underlying platform infrastructure (warehouses, roles, storage integration) using Terraform or Helm. Click-ops is not an option
CI/CD & Quality: Enforce a strict "DataOps" culture. Ensure every PR has unit tests, schema validation, and automated deployment pipelines
Reliability (SRE): Build monitoring and alerting (Monte Carlo, Grafana, Newrelic, Splunk) to detect data anomalies before stakeholders do
Data Mesh Implementation: Work with domain teams (Sales, Marketing, Finance) to onboard them to the platform, helping them decentralize their data ownership while adhering to platform standards
AI Readiness: Prepare structured data for AI consumption, ensuring high-quality, governed datasets are available for LLM agents and advanced analytics models
Focus: System Design & Technical Leadership. You proactively identify problems (e.g., "Our ingestion pattern won't scale 10x") and design the architectural solution. You lead the technical direction for a squad
Scope: You own entire subsystems or domain architectures. You are the "Tech Lead" for a group of engineers, driving technical consensus, RFCs, and coordinating cross-team dependencies
Qualification
Required
Strong background in software engineering (Python/Java/Go) applied to data
Comfortable writing custom API integrations and complex Python scripts
Deep production experience with Snowflake (architecture/tuning) and dbt (Jinja/Macros/Modeling)
Advanced proficiency with Airflow (Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow)
Hands-on experience with AWS services (S3, Lambda, IAM, ECS) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
Experience with Git, CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins), and Terraform
8+ years of experience, with a proven track record of leading technical projects or small teams
Preferred
Familiarity with Graph Databases (Neo4j) or Semantic Standards (RDF/SPARQL, TopQuadrant)
Experience with Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake
Experience with Kafka or Snowpipe Streaming
Experience using AI coding assistants (Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate development
Benefits
Time off programs
Medical
Dental
Vision
Mental health support
Paid parental leave
Life and disability insurance
401(k)
Employee stock purchasing program
Company
Salesforce
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65.38MKey Investors
Starboard ValueEmergence CapitalHalsey Minor
2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
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Leadership Team
Arundhati Bhattacharya
CEO & Chairperson, Salesforce India and South Asia
Marc Benioff
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