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Salesforce is looking for a motivated Platform Solution Engineer to join our extremely talented Pre-Sales Solution Engineering team, who are instrumental to MuleSoft’s growth.

As a Platform Solution Engineer , you will be the trusted technical expert in showing and proving how the Anypoint Platform can meet the customers technical requirements. You will partner closely with Account Solution Engineers and Account Executives to qualify sales opportunities using your technical and product expertise throughout the end-to-end sales cycle. You will be an integral part of the success for our customers by performing technical discovery qualification, making architectural recommendations for the solution, building complex product demonstrations and POCs.
As a passionate technologist and customer advocate, you will connect the dots between the technical solution to business value for the customer.

These are the core skills you’ll need to be successful:

• 8 years or more in solutions architecture, pre-sales engineering or technical consulting for enterprise software, with time spent on the selling side of complex deals.
• A passion for technology and translating that passion into business impact for customers
• Excellent verbal communication, presentation abilities and composure in front of all levels of technical audiences
• Hands-on application development experience in Java, API, cloud-native application development either in an enterprise environment
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies - iPaaS, SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure, etc. is preferred
• Experience of scoping, managing and building complex Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and responding to functional & technical elements of RFIs/RFPs independently and effectively
• Current hands on experience with some or all of the following: middleware, integration architecture patterns, enterprise messaging patterns, cloud platforms i.e., hyperscalers, APIs, AI technologies like LLMs.
• Hands-on depth in at least one of AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, and in enterprise integration: APIs, identity and single sign-on, data platforms and networking.
• A 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, and the trade-offs a client weighs between them.
The ability to draw an architecture and explain it to a CIO, a CISO and an engineer in the same meeting, and to write a clear technical answer to a deadline.

What you’ll achieve:
3 months:

• Become certified in MuleSoft’s Developer trainings
• Complete MuleSoft’s sales onboarding program
• Begin to build your architecture reframe and whiteboarding skills through shadowing and customer-scenario role playing
• Create a demonstration on a MuleSoft technical topic of interest

6 months:

• Become certified in all Product, Architecture, and Sales Messaging trainings
• Deliver product presentations and demonstrations that are tailored to the client’s technical requirements and audience
• Develop Proofs of Concept (PoCs) as part of an account team to demonstrate the art of the possible
• Put all the pieces together to “perfect your craft” by helping to close deals

12 months:

• Participate in the continuous improvement of MuleSoft products by making technical contributions and by providing feedback from the field to Product Marketing and Engineering
• Partner with the Account team on account planning and strategy and support marketing with evangelism activities (writing blogs, participating in demo-driven webinars, speaking at industry events, etc.)

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The typical base salary range for this position is $157,640 - $244,510 annually

There is a different range applicable to specific work locations. In California and New York, and select cities in the metropolitan areas of Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington DC, the base pay range for this role in those locations is $173,460 - $269,080 per year. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.