# Platform Solution Engineer

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: Chicago, Illinois
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $157,640 - $244,510 annually
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Salesforce is looking for a motivated Platform Solution Engineer to join our Pre-Sales Solution Engineering team. As a Platform Solution Engineer, you will be the trusted technical expert in showing and proving how the Anypoint Platform can meet customers' technical requirements.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with Account Solution Engineers and Account Executives to qualify sales opportunities using technical and product expertise throughout the end-to-end sales cycle.

- Perform technical discovery qualification, make architectural recommendations for solutions, build complex product demonstrations and POCs.

- Connect the dots between technical solutions and business value for customers.

Requirements:

- 8+ years of experience in solutions architecture, pre-sales engineering, or technical consulting for enterprise software.

- Passion for technology and translating it into business impact for customers.

- Excellent verbal communication and presentation abilities.

- Hands-on application development experience in Java, API, cloud-native application development.

- Working knowledge of cloud technologies, iPaaS, SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure.

Achievements: Within 3 months:

- Become certified in MuleSoft's Developer trainings.

- Complete MuleSoft's sales onboarding program.

- Build architecture and whiteboarding skills through shadowing and customer-scenario role-playing.

- Create a demonstration on a MuleSoft technical topic of interest.

Within 6 months:

- Become certified in all Product, Architecture, and Sales Messaging trainings.

- Deliver product presentations and demonstrations tailored to clients' technical requirements and audience.

- Develop Proofs of Concept (PoCs) as part of an account team.

Within 12 months:

- Participate in continuous improvement of MuleSoft products.

- Partner with the Account team on account planning and strategy.

Benefits:

- Time off programs.

- Medical, dental, vision insurance.

- Mental health support.

- Paid parental leave.

- Life and disability insurance.

- 401(k).

- Employee stock purchasing program.

Salary range: $157,640 - $244,510 annually. In California and New York, and select cities in Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington DC, the base pay range is $173,460 - $269,080 per year.

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## Skills

### Required
- solutions architecture
- pre-sales engineering
- technical consulting
- enterprise software
- Java
- API
- cloud-native application development
- cloud technologies
- iPaaS
- SaaS applications
- cloud infrastructure

### Nice to have
- middleware
- integration architecture patterns
- enterprise messaging patterns
- cloud platforms
- hyperscalers
- APIs
- AI technologies
- LLMs
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- enterprise integration
- identity and single sign-on
- data platforms
- networking

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