[Remote] Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise Operations
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Perplexity is an innovative company focused on building an AI-driven answer engine and scaling its enterprise operations. They are seeking a Sales Systems Engineer to manage the technical aspects of their enterprise sales motion, including CPQ, data orchestration, and Salesforce integrations. The role involves collaboration with various teams to develop scalable systems that support their growth.
Responsibilities
- CPQ: Quote-to-cash configuration, product catalog, pricing rules, approval workflows, discount governance, contract generation. Partner with Finance and Legal on guardrails
- Scoring: Account scoring, lead scoring, PLG activation scoring, intent signal aggregation. Build and maintain scoring models in Snowflake, push scores to Salesforce via reverse ETL
- Data orchestration: Polytomic, Hightouch, and Workato pipelines that move data across Snowflake, Salesforce, NetSuite, Apollo, Unify, and the rest of the stack. Own SLAs, monitoring, and breakage response
- Salesforce engineering: Flows, validation rules, formula fields, custom objects, Apex when needed, Lightning page configuration, permission sets, sandbox management
- Integrations: API-level integration work across our GTM tools. Build custom connectors when off-the-shelf does not cut it
- Routing and ownership: Account routing logic, opportunity assignment rules, territory management, ROE enforcement
- Reporting infrastructure: Snowflake models that power pipeline, forecast, comp, and exec reporting. Partner with Analytics on the visualization layer
Skills
- 5+ years in Sales Systems, RevOps Engineering, Salesforce engineering, or Enterprise Systems at a high-growth SaaS company
- Deep Salesforce expertise: flows, formula fields, validation rules, custom objects, sharing model, Apex if needed
- Hands-on CPQ experience (Salesforce CPQ, Stripe Billing, Maxio, or similar) including pricing, approvals, and quote generation
- Strong SQL. You can write production-grade Snowflake queries and build dbt-style transformation logic
- Production experience with reverse ETL (Polytomic, Hightouch, Census) and iPaaS (Workato, Tray, Zapier at scale)
- Comfort with REST APIs, webhooks, and scripting in Python or JavaScript
- A bias for building. You have shipped custom solutions when the vendor option was wrong
- Operator mindset. You read tickets, you ship fixes, you do not need a PM to translate seller requests
- Familiarity with PLG-to-enterprise motion and scoring users into accounts
- Experience with Apollo, Unify, Loops, Gatsby, Momentum, Floqer, or similar GTM tools
- NetSuite or Metronome billing exposure
- Comp plan tooling (Everstage, CaptivateIQ, QuotaPath)
- Background in entity resolution, dedup, or domain enrichment
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