Principal Data Engineer (Xico)

PRINCIPAL DATA ENGINEER - Mexico City

About the Role

We're building the product data platform that will power Salesforce's next era of agentic intelligence — delivering smarter, adaptive, and self‑optimizing product experiences. As a Full‑Stack Data Engineer, you'll design and build scalable systems that process hundreds of thousands of context‑rich product signals. These signals fuel analytics, customer‑facing products, ML models, and autonomous agents.

Key Responsibilities

• Near real‑time and batch telemetry pipelines for trusted signal capture
• Semantic layers and data products for reusable insights
• Programmatic discovery via metadata, MCP, and knowledge graphs
• Build and scale fault tolerant batch and streaming data pipelines using Spark, Trino, Flink, Kafka, DBT
• Design programmatic consumption layers to make product signals easy to define, discover, and reuse
• Evolve systems to support not just human analysis, but autonomous agent reasoning
• Contribute to a trusted data foundation powering decisions, AI agents, and adaptive products
• Collaborate across orgs with telemetry engineers, product leaders, data scientists, and AI builders

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, with strong software engineering fundamentals
• Expertise with big data frameworks: Spark, Trino/Presto, DBT, Snowflake
• Experience with streaming systems like Flink and Kafka, including distribution strategy (topics & partitions)
• Solid understanding of semantic layers, data modeling, and metrics systems
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS (e.g., S3, EMR, ECS, IAM), Containerization
• Bonus: fluency in AI data engineering patterns and tools like MCP
• Bonus: experience with knowledge graphs and modern metadata systems
• Strong communicator and collaborator — comfortable working across teams and domains
• Curious, pragmatic, and impact‑driven mindset

Why Join Us

Help shape how Salesforce leads the digital labor revolution. You'll be at the heart of transforming raw product signals into intelligent decisions — for everyone from engineers to sales reps to AI agents.

We are an equal opportunity employer and maintain a policy of non‑discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment.

We believe in equality for all and creating an inclusive workplace free from discrimination. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other categories protected by law. This policy applies to recruitment, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, performance evaluation, discipline, termination, and all other employment‑related activities.