Senior Software Engineer - Python/sql

at Salesforce · Enterprise · Mexico City, Mexico

Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and maintaining integrations and data connectors, with a strong emphasis on leveraging AI tools and agentic systems in the development workflow. The role involves building and orchestrating complex systems where AI agents integrate into human workflows, contributing to shared system context for AI reliability, and critically evaluating AI-generated code. Requires advanced prompt engineering skills and experience with AI development tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, develop, and maintain scalable connectors and integrations between applications using Python and SQL
  2. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and analysts to understand requirements and translate them into efficient solutions.
  3. Monitor and troubleshoot production connectors and integration pipelines, ensuring reliability and uptime.
  4. Work with large datasets from various sources, transforming and enriching them to meet analytical requirements.
  5. Document data processing workflows and maintain clear and comprehensive technical documentation.

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • SQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch
  • Git
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • PagerDuty
  • Grafana
  • Splunk
  • AI development tools
  • Prompt engineering

Nice to have

  • IT infrastructure
  • cloud platforms
  • operational best practices
  • networking fundamentals
  • authentication/authorization mechanisms
  • secrets management tools

What the JD emphasized

  • AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows
  • Critically evaluate code (human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
  • Advanced prompt engineering skills
  • AI-first approach to engineering

Other signals

  • AI agents
  • prompt engineering
  • evaluating AI-generated code
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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

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Senior Software Engineer - Python/SQL

DET Team

Mexico City - Hybrid

Job responsibilities

Responsible for design and development of Data Connectors and Integrations between enterprise applications and platforms, and overseeing incident management and resolution processes for the assigned products. You will collaborate closely with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to ensure the smooth functioning of systems and platforms and provide a high level of operational support to meet business goals.

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable connectors and integrations between applications using Python and SQL
  • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and analysts to understand requirements and translate them into efficient solutions.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot production connectors and integration pipelines, ensuring reliability and uptime.
  • Work with large datasets from various sources, transforming and enriching them to meet analytical requirements.
  • Document data processing workflows and maintain clear and comprehensive technical documentation.
  • Own incident resolution processes in production, ensuring timely and effective troubleshooting of technical issues.
  • Monitor adherence to SLAs & KPIs and manage escalations to maintain customer satisfaction.
  • Oversee the platform's operational stability and performance, ensuring high availability and scalability.
  • Manage SaaS application administrations and self-hosted applications in cloud environments like AWS.
  • Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.
  • Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
  • Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.
  • Critically evaluate code (human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
  • Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.
  • Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
  • Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.
  • Critically evaluate code (human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.

Qualifications:

Must Have

  • 6-10 years of experience in IT
  • Programming Language: Programming skills in Python for development, automation and troubleshooting tasks
  • **Databases:**Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, or Elasticsearch for basic administration and querying
  • **CI/CD & Version Control: ** Familiarity with Git, Jenkins and GitHub Actions for understanding deployment pipelines and version control
  • Strong experience on Docker, Kubernetes & Helm along with programming language experience to support platform KLO & monitoring
  • Proven experience with incident management, service management, and driving process improvements. Experience with incident management tools like PagerDuty for tracking and resolving issues
  • Expertise in monitoring tools like Grafana, Splunk etc, automation frameworks, and platform performance optimization.
  • A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering — using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.
  • Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows.
  • Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.
  • A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering — using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.

Nice to Have

  • Understanding of IT infrastructure, cloud platforms, and operational best practices.
  • Understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, etc) and authentication/authorization mechanisms (OAuth 2.0, SAML, JWT etc)
  • Security Tools: Knowledge of secrets management tools like Vault, CyberArk etc

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