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About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.
Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
About the Role
As a Support Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of transforming how customers experience and adopt Salesforce technology, rolling up your sleeves to make it happen. This isn't just about troubleshooting issues or answering questions; it's about deeply understanding our customers' most complex challenges and crafting innovative solutions that accelerate adoption and drive measurable business value throughout our Salesforce platform.
The Support Engineer, will welcome our newest customers post-sale before they begin the implementation process. You'll continue to serve customers throughout their journey as a technical champion who not only resolves sophisticated platform challenges but also proactively guides them to better leverage Salesforce products, features, and best practices. Success in this role means accelerating customer adoption, strengthening their technical health and helping customers demonstrate tangible business impact through your reactive and proactive technical efforts.
This role requires someone who can think like both an engineer and a consultant – diagnosing root causes while simultaneously identifying opportunities to elevate how customers use our technology. If you're energized by solving hard problems, building customer relationships, and seeing the direct impact of your technical work on customer success, this role is for you.
Your Impact
- Welcome & Onboard New Customers for Success: Serve as the technical welcoming committee for customers post-sale. Conduct initial technical discovery sessions and create personalized onboarding plans that set customers up for immediate wins. You'll be their first technical partner, ensuring a smooth transition from sales to implementation and building the foundation for long-term success.
- Accelerate Product Adoption & Feature Utilization: Proactively engage with customers to drive faster time-to-value by identifying adoption gaps, demonstrating high-impact features, and creating tailored success path plans. Leverage your deep technical engagement to identify underutilized features, expansion opportunities, and strategic use cases that maximize their investment and achieve production outcomes quickly. Own measurable technical outcomes including acceleration of time-to-production, increased adoption of priority features, improved integration reliability, and demonstrated operational efficiency gains".
- Deliver Mission-Critical Support with Speed & Precision: Respond with urgency when customers face time-sensitive, business-impacting issues across the Salesforce platform, including complex data integrations, API challenges, and familiarity with AI/Agentforce implementations. Rapidly diagnose root causes, coordinate critical escalations, and communicate clearly throughout the resolution process. You'll be their technical lifeline during challenging moments, balancing speed with thoroughness to ensure exceptional support experiences.
- Champion Best Practices & Long-Term Success: Directly guide and implement engineering best practices for code quality, scalability, security, and maintainability across customer solutions. Translate customer business objectives into architectural recommendations, adapting communication style to stakeholder maturity and sentiment. Systematically synthesize recurring technical friction patterns across accounts and translate them into prioritized, data-backed product feedback in partnership with Product and Engineering teams. You'll be an evangelist for doing things the right way, ensuring sustainable customer success.
Required Qualifications
- Strong background in Computer Science or related engineering discipline
- Proficiency in Java Programming Language
- 2+ years of experience in debugging/ troubleshooting Java code/applications.
- Skill in explaining complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
- Experience assessing business objectives and driving stakeholder alignment across organizational levels
- Excellent collaboration, facilitation and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Demonstrated entrepreneurship, a "get-things-done" attitude, and a focus on fast delivery
- Customer-centric mindset with proven ability to build consultative relationships and act as a trusted advisor
- Ability to prioritize, multi-task, collaborate with team members and perform effectively under pressure
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience in customer-facing, hands-on technical roles such as Technical Support, Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, or Customer Success Engineering
- Experience with Salesforce Data Cloud and/or Agentforce platform
- Experience developing conversational AI solutions within regulated industries
- Experience building solutions with AI/LLM technologies, including integrating LLMs, applying AI orchestration frameworks, and prompt engineering techniques
- Familiarity with data modeling, processing, integration, and analytics, with demonstrable proficiency in data platforms (e.g., Salesforce Data Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks)
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
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Posting Statement
Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.
Skills Required
- Strong background in Computer Science or related engineering discipline
- Proficiency in Java Programming Language
- 2+ years of experience in debugging/troubleshooting Java code/applications
- Skill in explaining complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
- Experience assessing business objectives and driving stakeholder alignment
- Excellent collaboration, facilitation, and communication skills
- Demonstrated entrepreneurship and a focus on fast delivery
- Customer-centric mindset with proven ability to build relationships
- Ability to prioritize, multi-task, and perform effectively under pressure
Salesforce Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Salesforce and has not been reviewed or approved by Salesforce.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is positioned as above-market in the U.S., with multiple peer-reported benchmarks converging around a similar median total compensation figure. Compensation is also framed as broadly viewed as fair in aggregate, even while acknowledging variation by role and group.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as notably generous for U.S. caregivers, with additional supports like gradual return-to-work and doula reimbursement. Family-building programs are also emphasized through fertility/adoption/surrogacy support with sizeable reimbursement limits.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Mental-health and coaching offerings are highlighted as accessible supports alongside financial-wellbeing tools. Volunteer Time Off and donation matching are presented as distinctive lifestyle-aligned benefits that add value beyond cash compensation.
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What We Do
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where Humans with agents drive customer success together. Through Agentforce, our groundbreaking suite of customizable agents and tools, Salesforce brings autonomous AI agents, unified data from any source, and best-in-class Customer 360 apps together on one integrated platform to help companies connect with customers in a whole new way. Salesforce is democratizing AI agents for businesses of every size and industry so every company can embrace a workforce without limits. Our low code, open, and secure platform helps companies build and customize Salesforce fast so they can safely scale AI-powered work to every customer and employee experience and transform their business. Salesforce is proud to be the market leader, but we’re even more proud to lead in philanthropy, innovation and culture. Guided by core values of trust, customer success, innovation, equality, and sustainability, Salesforce is more than a business — we’re a platform for change.
Why Work With Us
There’s no typical day in the life of a Salesforce employee. You could be transforming our next AI innovation — or transforming your community. Closing deals — or closing your laptop for a day of Volunteer Time Off. Driving change for our customers — or driving change within one of our high-performing teams.
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