Distinguised/Principal Platform Solution Engineer - Data Foundations

Salesforce•Chicago, IL

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a Platform Solution Engineer to join MuleSoft’s pre-sales Solution Engineering team. The role is the technical expert who demonstrates how the Anypoint Platform can meet customer requirements, partnering with Account Solution Engineers and Account Executives to qualify opportunities throughout the sales cycle. The engineer supports customers through technical discovery, solution architecture recommendations, complex demonstrations, and proofs of concept, connecting technical solutions to business value. The role calls for a passionate technologist with enterprise software pre-sales, architecture, or consulting experience; hands-on application development and cloud expertise; and the ability to explain architectures to audiences ranging from engineers to CIOs and CISOs. The position includes customer-facing presentations and demonstrations, PoC development, responses to RFIs and RFPs, account planning, and contributions to product improvement and technical evangelism. In the first three months, the employee is expected to complete MuleSoft developer certification and sales onboarding, develop architecture and whiteboarding skills through shadowing and role-playing, and create a technical demonstration. By six months, the employee should complete product, architecture, and sales messaging certifications and deliver tailored presentations, demonstrations, and PoCs. By twelve months, the employee is expected to provide field feedback and technical contributions to product teams, support account strategy, and participate in marketing and evangelism activities.

Requirements

At least 8 years of experience in solutions architecture, pre-sales engineering, or technical consulting for enterprise software, including experience on the selling side of complex deals.
Strong passion for technology and ability to translate it into business impact for customers.
Excellent verbal communication and presentation abilities, including composure with technical audiences at all levels.
Hands-on application development experience in Java, APIs, and cloud-native application development in an enterprise environment.
Experience scoping, managing, and building complex proofs of concept and responding to functional and technical RFI/RFP requirements.
Current hands-on experience with some or all of middleware, integration architecture patterns, enterprise messaging patterns, hyperscaler cloud platforms, APIs, and AI technologies such as LLMs.
Hands-on depth in at least one of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and in enterprise integration, including APIs, identity and single sign-on, data platforms, and networking.
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 models and their trade-offs for clients.
Ability to draw and explain an architecture to a CIO, CISO, and engineer in the same meeting and to write clear technical responses to deadlines.

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of cloud technologies, including iPaaS, SaaS applications, and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Qualify sales opportunities with Account Solution Engineers and Account Executives throughout the end-to-end sales cycle.
Conduct technical discovery and qualification, recommend solution architectures, and connect technical solutions to customer business value.
Build complex product demonstrations and proofs of concept to demonstrate how the Anypoint Platform meets customer requirements.
Scope, manage, and build complex proofs of concept and respond independently and effectively to functional and technical elements of RFIs and RFPs.
Deliver product presentations and demonstrations tailored to customers’ technical requirements and audiences.
Partner with account teams on account planning and strategy and help close deals.
Contribute technical feedback from the field to Product Marketing and Engineering to support continuous product improvement.
Support marketing and technical evangelism through activities such as writing blogs, participating in demo-driven webinars, and speaking at industry events.
Complete MuleSoft developer, product, architecture, and sales messaging training and certifications.