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Job Summary:
Engine is a company focused on transforming business travel into a personalized, rewarding, and simple experience. As a Principal Systems Architect, you will own the architecture of platforms that drive go-to-market processes, collaborating with various teams to translate business needs into scalable systems.
Responsibilities:
• Own the end-to-end design of Engine's Salesforce stack — Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Data Cloud, AgentForce, and Experience Cloud.
• Architect the middleware fabric that connects Salesforce to Outreach, ZoomInfo, Snowflake, Customer.io, AWS Connect, NetSuite, and dozens of GTM tools.
• Own the technical architecture of Outreach — sequences, triggers, mappings, ZoomInfo enrichment, and the bi-directional sync with Salesforce.
• Serve as the technical translator between Business Systems and Engineering.
• Architect Slack as the operational surface for GTM — automated pulse reports, deal alerts, approval workflows, case routing notifications, and incident response.
• Own the systems-side of Engine's AI initiatives — AgentForce design patterns, prompt and data grounding strategies, MCP server architecture, and the orchestration patterns that let agents act on Salesforce, Snowflake, and product data safely.
• Manage your own backlog, prioritize with GTM and RevOps leadership, and ship on a two-week cadence.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 8+ years architecting Salesforce at scale — Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Flow, Apex, LWC, Experience Cloud, and Data Cloud. You've designed for governor limits, multi-cloud sharing, and complex sObject models, not just configured out of the box.
• Deep, hands-on experience with Tray.io (or equivalent: Workato, Mulesoft, n8n) — including workflow design patterns, error handling, callable workflows, and high-volume orchestration across millions of records.
• Production experience with Outreach architecture — triggers, sequences, plugins, ZoomInfo enrichment, and Salesforce sync.
• Strong working knowledge of Slack as a platform — Block Kit, slash commands, event subscriptions, and Slack-native workflow design.
• Proven experience integrating GTM systems with data warehouses (Snowflake), event streams (Kafka, webhooks), and product systems — REST/SOAP APIs, event-driven architecture, and idempotent design.
• You think in data models, event flows, and contracts — not screens. You design for downstream reporting, audit requirements, and cross-system consistency.
• Comfortable owning the full integration lifecycle: requirements, API review, sandbox, production deployment, observability, and post-launch optimization.
• Strong instincts on clicks vs. code, declarative vs. programmatic, Tray vs. Apex vs. Kafka — and the ability to defend each call with business and technical reasoning.
• You speak the language of Product and Engineering. You read PRDs, review code, comment in GitHub PRs, and hold your own in architecture reviews.
• Hands-on with version control, sandbox strategy, CI/CD for Salesforce (sfdx, scratch orgs, metadata deployments), and modern DevOps patterns.
• Familiar with event-driven patterns, message queues, and the realities of distributed systems — eventual consistency, retries, dead-letter queues, and the difference between at-least-once and exactly-once delivery.
• Action-biased. You ship, iterate, and don't wait for perfect specs.
• AI-driven builder — fluent with Claude Code, Cursor, MCP servers, and AgentForce. You use AI to accelerate time-to-production on integrations, reviews, and documentation.
• Tight, clear async writer — design decisions, blockers, and risk flags without being prompted.
• Shows up to syncs with recommendations, not status.
• Escalates early and with proposed solutions.
• Translates technical architecture into business impact language for Sales, RevOps, Marketing, and CX leadership.
Preferred:
• Experience with AgentForce, Data Cloud in production.
• Background building AI SDR, lead scoring, or account prioritization systems.
• Experience architecting call intelligence and conversational AI platforms (Attention, Gong, AWS Connect, Twilio)
• Previous experience as the bridge between Business Systems and Engineering at a high-growth, venture-backed company.
• Salesforce certifications (Platform Developer II, Application Architect, System Architect, or CTA-track).
Company:
The modern travel platform for booking and managing business trips Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in Denver, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.