Senior/Lead Platform Solution Engineer - Data Foundations

Salesforce•Austin, TX

3d•$113,330 - $198,170

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a Platform Solution Engineer to join MuleSoft’s Pre-Sales Solution Engineering team. The role serves as a trusted technical expert who demonstrates how the Anypoint Platform meets customers’ technical requirements. Working closely with Account Solution Engineers and Account Executives, the engineer uses technical and product expertise to qualify sales opportunities throughout the sales cycle and support customer success through technical discovery, solution architecture recommendations, complex demonstrations, and proofs of concept. The position connects technical solutions to customer business value. The successful candidate will develop MuleSoft product and sales expertise, deliver tailored presentations and demonstrations, create proofs of concept, help close deals, and contribute technical feedback to product teams. The role also supports account strategy and marketing through technical evangelism, such as blogs, webinars, and industry events.

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience in solutions architecture, pre-sales engineering, or technical consulting for enterprise software, including experience on the selling side of complex deals.
Passion for technology and the ability to translate it into business impact for customers.
Excellent verbal communication and presentation skills, with composure before technical audiences at all levels.
Hands-on application development experience in Java, APIs, or cloud-native application development in an enterprise environment.
Experience scoping, managing, and building complex proofs of concept.
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 deployments, including the trade-offs customers consider.
Ability to draw and explain architecture to a CIO, CISO, and engineer in the same meeting, and to write a clear technical response to a deadline.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Partner with Account Solution Engineers and Account Executives to qualify sales opportunities throughout the end-to-end sales cycle.
Conduct technical discovery and qualification, and make architectural recommendations.
Build complex product demonstrations and proofs of concept to demonstrate customer solutions.
Translate technical solutions into business value for customers.
Deliver product presentations and demonstrations tailored to client technical requirements and audiences.
Respond independently and effectively to functional and technical elements of RFIs and RFPs.
Contribute technical feedback from the field to Product Marketing and Engineering to support continuous product improvement.
Partner with account teams on account planning and strategy.
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.