Overview
As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will implement Salesforce Data 360 inside customer environments, turning designs into production-ready data pipelines and AI-ready data layers. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to deliver real-time data foundations that support Agentforce AI agents. The role blends hands-on data engineering and software engineering to solve complex ingestion, identity, and governance challenges at scale. This is an opportunity to help shape how enterprises leverage real-time data and AI in practice.
Retribuzione / Benefits incentive component tailored by grade level
Responsabilità Build in customer environments using Data 360, SQL, Apex, Python, Flow and related tooling; deploy from sandbox to production
Engineer the data layer: ingestion, harmonization, identity resolution, batch and streaming processing
Ground AI agents with RAG, vector databases, search indexes, and knowledge bases
Design and implement agent communication protocols (MCP, agent-to-agent) and secure data integration patterns
Govern data integration, transformation, and governance across Salesforce ecosystem and external systems
Ensure secure authentication/authorization (OAuth, SAML) and compliant enterprise security practices
Troubleshoot ingestion, mapping, schema drift, and API issues with reproducible results
Collaborate with customers, partners, and internal teams, delivering handoffs and documentation for ongoing support




Contribute to roadmap through feedback and live evidence from deployments
Requisiti fondamentali 8+ years in software or data engineering or technical implementation with a production data solution
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
Hands-on experience implementing Salesforce Data 360 or similar data platform across ingestion, modeling, identity, insight, activation, and operations
Experience building data pipelines and integrations with enterprise data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Kafka)
Proficiency in SQL; ability to write and optimize multi-table queries
Fluency in at least one enterprise language (Apex, Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript) and willingness to learn others
Understanding of data modeling, APIs, integration patterns, and batch/streaming processing
Experience building AI retrieval/app knowledge systems (vector databases, indexing, embeddings)
Experience with secure service-to-service integration (OAuth, SAML) and agent protocols (MCP)
Ability to implement against documented architecture and communicate with customer technical teams
Experience delivering with customers/partners in deadline-driven environments
Relevant Salesforce Agentforce/Data 360 certifications (preferred)
Customer-facing collaboration
Methodical problem-solving
Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Data 360 (Data Cloud) experience
SQL
Apex

📌 Data 360 - Principal Forward Deployed Engineer- Italy (Monza)
🏢 Salesforce
📍 Monza