Data Platform Architect, Salesforce
AgentExchange
$263.2-401.4k
World's leading CRM provider
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World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$263.2-401.4k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years in software / data engineering, including multi-year ownership of an enterprise-scale data or ML platform
- Deep architecture experience in at least three of: lakehouse / warehouse design, streaming + batch pipelines, dimensional and event modeling, feature stores, model serving
- Cloud-native data infrastructure: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks; AWS-based platforms
- LLM systems experience, in production: RAG, embeddings and vector stores, prompt and context engineering, offline and online evaluation, cost and latency tuning, hallucination and safety controls
- Working knowledge of MCP or equivalent tool / agent protocols, and a clear point of view on exposing data to agents safely
- Data security and governance as a first-class skill: PII classification, multi-tenant isolation, fine-grained access control, GDPR / CCPA, lineage and audit, and the security implications of LLM / agent access patterns
- Track record representing a technical domain in cross-org architecture forums and influencing direction across teams you don't manage
- Executive communication: can defend an architecture to a CTO and explain trade-offs to a PM in the same hour
- A related technical degree required
- Preferred
- Salesforce Data 360, Tableau Next, Slack, MuleSoft data integration
- Marketplace or e-commerce data: GMV, attrition, conversion funnels, search signal processing
- Large-scale migrations (Heroku → cloud-native) with zero production disruption
- NPS and effort-score measurement architecture at scale
- Privacy-preserving ML (differential privacy, tokenization, synthetic data)
- Agent evaluation frameworks and LLM observability (traces, eval datasets, regression suites)
- Familiarity with Salesforce Platform features and best practices
- In office expectations are 10 days/a quarter to support customers and/or collaborate with their teams
What the job involves
- AgentExchange runs on telemetry, partner analytics, and ML signals — and today they live in fragmented pipelines and destinations
- We need an architect to consolidate them into one trusted data platform, define the contracts every team builds to, and architect the LLM- and agent-native layer that turns marketplace data into intelligent experiences for partners, customers, and Salesforce leadership
- This is a role at the intersection of architecture, strategy, and execution
- You will engage with executive stakeholders, represent the data platform in cross-org architecture reviews (VAT), and set the long-term technical direction every data engineer and ML practitioner on the team works toward
- End-to-end data architecture. Canonical data model, destination consolidation, telemetry taxonomy, and the 18-month roadmap for the AgentExchange data platform
- Pipelines and contracts. Streaming and batch ingestion, schema governance, data contracts enforced across every AgentExchange engineering team, and pipeline reliability SLOs
- Self-service analytics. Partner Console, GMV / attrition / install / search dashboards, customer and partner effort scores — built on Data 360 and Tableau Next
- ML platform. Feature store, training and serving infrastructure, evaluation, and monitoring. Sponsor the Lead Scoring Model for AgentX partners and the next wave (attrition, GMV forecasting, solution-pack recommendations)
- LLM and agentic data layer. Architect how agents access marketplace data safely — including MCP servers that expose curated data tools to internal and partner-facing agents, RAG over partner / listing / telemetry corpora, embeddings and vector store strategy, and evaluation harnesses for LLM-driven insights
- Data security and governance. Set the bar for PII handling, multi-tenant isolation, row- and column-level access, GDPR / CCPA, audit, and the privacy posture of any LLM or agent surface that touches partner or customer data
- Cross-org technical leadership. Represent data in VAT and cross-org architecture reviews; align Platform Services, Search & Personalization, and Partner Experience on shared standards
- Migration leadership. Drive the data components of existing pipeline migration with zero disruption to pipelines or partner analytics
- Mentorship. Be the top technical sponsor for the Data Engineering & Analytics organization — raise the bar on craft, review designs, and grow the next generation of senior ICs
- What Success Looks Like (First 12–15 Months):
- One unified analytics destination replaces today's fragmented stack; every AgentExchange team publishes against a shared contract
- Partner-facing dashboards refresh on a documented SLO, and instrumentation completeness is measurable and enforced
- An MCP-based agentic data layer is in production, with clear guardrails for what agents can read, summarize, and act on
- The Lead Scoring model and at least one new predictive surface (attrition or GMV forecasting) are in production with offline and online evaluation
Our take
Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.
By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.
Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2001
$46.9m
SERIES D
Nov 1999
$13.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $64.5m
Company benefits
- With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Marc Benioff
(Chair & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.
Parker Harris
(CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.
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