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From the employer's careers site First seen 1 Nov 2026

Staff Data Engineer

Salary

$197,300 - $313,700 annually

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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

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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