# Staff Data Engineer

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $197,300 - $313,700 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Metrics Foundations team at Salesforce builds trusted datasets and metrics that power decisions across Product, Analytics, Marketing, Sales, and Operations. As a Staff Data Engineer, you will set the technical direction for how Slack defines, computes, governs, and serves its most critical metrics.

Responsibilities:

- Set the architecture and roadmap for the metrics platform

- Design and scale data models and pipelines

- Evolve the semantic layer and build APIs and tools

- Lead metric certification, governance, and design reviews

Requirements:

- 10+ years of software or data engineering experience

- 6+ years hands-on with data architecture, data modeling, and metadata management

- Deep SQL expertise, strong Python skills, and working proficiency in Go, Java, or Scala

- Experience with Spark, Trino, Airflow, Iceberg, and Snowflake

Benefits:

- Time off programs

- Medical, dental, vision

- Mental health support

- Paid parental leave

- Life and disability insurance

- 401(k)

- Employee stock purchasing program

Salary Range: $197,300 - $313,700 annually

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- Python
- Go
- Java
- Scala
- Spark
- Trino
- Airflow
- Iceberg
- Snowflake

### Nice to have
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers
- tool-use APIs
- evaluation harnesses
- semantic layers
- metrics platforms
- data catalogs
- lineage tools

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