# Senior/Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Public Sector

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: Herndon, VA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior/Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) on our Public Sector team, you'll be embedded with U.S. Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and Aerospace clients , designing and deploying bespoke AI solutions that drive mission-critical outcomes. You'll architect the backbone of a planet-scale platform that ships hundreds of features daily with rock-solid reliability and security.

**Mission Responsibilities**

- Serve as the technical lead on high-profile customer engagements,designing, building, and deploying tailored Salesforce solutions for defense, intelligence, and aerospace missions.

- Engineer distributed systems running across thousands of compute nodes on AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba Cloud.

- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), microservices (Kubernetes, Docker), and data pipelines.

- Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow.

- Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.

- Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.

- Critically evaluate code (human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.

- Partner directly with customers and mission stakeholders to translate complex needs into technical solutions.

- Lead rapid prototyping, root cause analysis, and best-practice evangelism across teams.

- Mentor junior engineers and serve as a technical role model.

**What We're Looking For**

- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.

- Deep proficiency in Java, GoLang, Python, or Ruby.

- A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering , using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.

- Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor) in development workflows.

- Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.

- Experience with enterprise data platforms (Salesforce Data Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery).

- Experience working in an air-gapped GovCloud environment.

- Strong collaboration and communication skills , from command centers to executive briefings.

- Ability to travel 25–50% of the time, as needed to customer sites.

- Active Secret or Top Secret clearance required.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- GoLang
- Python
- Ruby
- AI tools
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Salesforce Data Cloud
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- BigQuery

### Nice to have
- Background in defense/aerospace
- classified environments (IL5/IL6)
- federal civilian agencies
- Prior experience in a customer-facing
- hands-on technical lead or architect role
- Salesforce platform experience (Agentforce, Data Cloud, Flows, LWC, Apex)
- Familiarity with IL5/IL6/CNSS #1253 requirements or deployment to classified environments

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