Success Engineer

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Customer Success

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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.

We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you've come to the right place.

About the Role

As a Success 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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)