Staff Data Engineer - Slack
Salesforce13 days ago
Base Salary
$197k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the architecture and roadmap for the metrics platform from ingestion and canonical datasets through the semantic layer and serving.
- Design and scale data models and pipelines processing billions of records into trusted datasets with measurable quality, predictable SLAs, and freshness signals.
- Evolve the semantic layer and build APIs and tools for navigating metric definitions, lineage, ownership, and query drafting.
- Lead metric certification, governance, and design reviews.
- Lead complex, multi-team technical initiatives across Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Analytics without formal authority.
- Mentor senior engineers and use AI-assisted development while maintaining delivery quality.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software or data engineering experience, including 6+ years of hands-on data architecture, data modeling, and metadata management.
- Experience leading complex, multi-team technical initiatives as an individual contributor and driving alignment without formal authority.
- Deep SQL expertise, strong Python skills, and working proficiency in Go, Java, or Scala.
- Experience architecting scalable, cost-efficient data models and pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with Spark, Trino, Airflow, Iceberg, and Snowflake.
- Experience with dimensional and star/snowflake modeling.
- A related technical degree is required.
- Preferred experience building infrastructure or tools for AI agents, including Model Context Protocol servers, tool-use APIs, or evaluation harnesses.
- Preferred experience with semantic layers, metrics platforms, data catalogs, or lineage tools such as dbt, sqlmesh, Datahub, Cube, or LookML.
- Preferred experience with experimentation platforms, metrics, exposure logging, and A/B-testing guardrails.
Benefits
- Salesforce offers time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits; the posting states that the listed salary range is base salary only.
- The role is part of Slack’s Data Engineering organization within Salesforce; no specific remote, hybrid, or in-office arrangement is stated.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Salesforce
Salesforce builds cloud-based customer relationship management software and a broader Customer 360 platform for sales, service, marketing, commerce, and analytics, sold by subscription to businesses and public-sector organizations. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE under the symbol CRM. Its portfolio includes Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, MuleSoft integration, Tableau analytics, and Slack for collaboration, with extensive developer tools and APIs.