Principal Data Engineer

5 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Software Engineering Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we’re looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. 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. You’ll Work On 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 This isn’t a typical data engineering role. We’re looking for creative, systems-minded engineers working outside of the “data engineer” box, fluent in both data and AI, and excited to navigate ambiguity, cross boundaries, and drive real impact. What You’ll Do 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 Apply software engineering best practices to data systems: testing, CI/CD, observability 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 What We’re Looking For 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, incl. 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. If you’re excited to design resilient, trusted, and intelligent systems at scale, we’d love to hear from you. Unleash Your Potential When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world. Accommodations If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form. Posting Statement Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. … (full EEO statement continues as above). Seniority level Not Applicable Employment type Full-time Job function Information Technology Industries: Software Development, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Technology, Information and Internet Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Salesforce by 2x Get notified about new Data Engineer jobs in Mexico City, Mexico. Mexico City Metropolitan Area 2 weeks ago Mexico City Metropolitan Area 3 weeks ago Mexico City Metropolitan Area 4 weeks ago Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City, Mexico 2 weeks ago Mexico City Metropolitan Area 2 weeks ago Mexico City Metropolitan Area 2 weeks ago We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI. #J-18808-Ljbffr