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# Distinguised/Principal Platform Solution Engineer - Data Foundations

- **Company:** Salesforce Inc.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $173,460 - $269,080
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Application Integration Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Middleware, Anypoint Studio, Single Sign-On, Software Engineering, Google Cloud, Enterprise Software Applications, Large Language Models, Agentic-AI, Enterprise Integration, Data Management
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://salesforce.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site/job/Illinois---Chicago/Distinguised-Principal-Platform-Solution-Engineer---Data-Foundations_JR367618

## About the Role

* 8 years or more in solutions architecture, pre-sales engineering or technical consulting for enterprise software, with time spent on the selling side of complex deals.
 * A passion for technology and translating that passion into business impact for customers
 * Excellent verbal communication, presentation abilities and composure in front of all levels of technical audiences
 * Hands-on application development experience in Java, API, cloud-native application development either in an enterprise environment
 * Working knowledge of cloud technologies - iPaaS, SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure, etc. is preferred
 * Experience of scoping, managing and building complex Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and responding to functional & technical elements of RFIs/RFPs independently and effectively
 * Current hands on experience with some or all of the following: middleware, integration architecture patterns, enterprise messaging patterns, cloud platforms i.e., hyperscalers, APIs, AI technologies like LLMs.
 * Hands-on depth in at least one of AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, and in enterprise integration: APIs, identity and single sign-on, data platforms and networking.
 * A working understanding of large language models, retrieval, and how AI agents are built, orchestrated and governed in production.
 * Experience with SaaS, private cloud and on-premises deployment, and the trade-offs a client weighs between them.
 * The ability to draw an architecture and explain it to a CIO, a CISO and an engineer in the same meeting, and to write a clear technical answer to a deadline.

## Description

As a Platform Solution Engineer, you will be the trusted technical expert in showing and proving how the Anypoint Platform can meet the customers technical requirements. You will partner closely with Account Solution Engineers and Account Executives to qualify sales opportunities using your technical and product expertise throughout the end-to-end sales cycle. You will be an integral part of the success for our customers by performing technical discovery qualification, making architectural recommendations for the solution, building complex product demonstrations and POCs.
As a passionate technologist and customer advocate, you will connect the dots between the technical solution to business value for the customer.