Lead Data Platform Engineer, Salesforce
Data Governance
$172.5-260.1k
+ ESPP
World's leading CRM provider
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World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$172.5-260.1k
+ ESPP
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- Our ideal candidate has extensive engineering experience, a strong track record of implementing data governance at scale, and a passion for enabling AI-ready data platforms
- 8+ years in data platform or infrastructure engineering, with experience in data streaming, telemetry, or observability domains
- Proven track record implementing internal data policies (classification, access) and external regulations (GDPR, CCPA)
- Deep knowledge of event-driven architectures, instrumentation schemas, Kafka, and real-time data pipelines
- Hands-on experience with Graph Databases or Ontology management to support AI consumption
- Experience in the Salesforce ecosystem (Data360, Agentforce, Service Cloud, etc.) is a plus
- Ability to align technical roadmaps with industry trends and deliver high-impact features in complex enterprise environments
- Exceptional skill in distilling technical complexity for diverse audiences and driving functional alignment
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Lead Data Platform Engineer to drive the technical implementation of Trust and Data Governance within our Customer Success Data Platform
- In this role, you will architect systems that ensure our product and customer data—both structured and unstructured—is reliable, compliant, and AI-ready
- You’ll work at the intersection of data engineering, metadata management, and AI, building frameworks that empower our enterprise to innovate with confidence
- Define and execute the technical strategy for data trust, ensuring both structured metrics and unstructured datasets are AI-ready
- Build and scale discovery capabilities and metadata frameworks so users can find and apply trusted datasets efficiently
- Improve data quality through well-governed instrumentation and schema practices across the platform
- Design and implement automated ways to expose data quality and usability metadata through knowledge graphs
- Enable semantic understanding and automated reasoning to accelerate AI-powered application development
- Manage metadata as a product, leveraging Graph Databases or ontology management tools to bridge raw data and AI agents
- Establish and maintain quality assessment frameworks, benchmarks, and automated reporting to align with global data standards
- Implement technical controls for data retention, access, and classification
- Ensure the platform meets rigorous external regulatory requirements, including GDPR, CCPA, and SOX
- Operate the platform as a two-sided marketplace, supporting both data engineers producing data and application developers consuming it
- Partner with users to understand pain points in data usability and build solutions that reduce time-to-find and time-to-use
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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