[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.ResponsibilitiesCPQ: Quote-to-cash configuration, product catalog, pricing rules, approval workflows, discount governance, contract generation. Partner with Finance and Legal on guardrailsScoring: Account scoring, lead scoring, PLG activation scoring, intent signal aggregation. Build and maintain scoring models in Snowflake, push scores to Salesforce via reverse ETLData 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 responseSalesforce engineering: Flows, validation rules, formula fields, custom objects, Apex when needed, Lightning page configuration, permission sets, sandbox managementIntegrations: API-level integration work across our GTM tools. Build custom connectors when off-the-shelf does not cut itRouting and ownership: Account routing logic, opportunity assignment rules, territory management, ROE enforcementReporting infrastructure: Snowflake models that power pipeline, forecast, comp, and exec reporting. Partner with Analytics on the visualization layerSkills5+ years in Sales Systems, RevOps Engineering, Salesforce engineering, or Enterprise Systems at a high-growth SaaS companyDeep Salesforce expertise: flows, formula fields, validation rules, custom objects, sharing model, Apex if neededHands-on CPQ experience (Salesforce CPQ, Stripe Billing, Maxio, or similar) including pricing, approvals, and quote generationStrong SQL. You can write production-grade Snowflake queries and build dbt-style transformation logicProduction experience with reverse ETL (Polytomic, Hightouch, Census) and iPaaS (Workato, Tray, Zapier at scale)Comfort with REST APIs, webhooks, and scripting in Python or JavaScriptA bias for building. You have shipped custom solutions when the vendor option was wrongOperator mindset. You read tickets, you ship fixes, you do not need a PM to translate seller requestsFamiliarity with PLG-to-enterprise motion and scoring users into accountsExperience with Apollo, Unify, Loops, Gatsby, Momentum, Floqer, or similar GTM toolsNetSuite or Metronome billing exposureComp plan tooling (Everstage, CaptivateIQ, QuotaPath)Background in entity resolution, dedup, or domain enrichmentCompany OverviewPerplexity is an AI-powered platform that retrieves, analyzes information from the web to deliver structured answers with cited sources. It was founded in 2022, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.perplexity.ai.Company H1B SponsorshipPerplexity has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2026, 12 in 2025, 7 in 2024, 2 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.