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Staff & Senior Staff Data Platform Engineer - Slack

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2 days ago
Atlanta, GA, USA +3 moreStaff+

Base Salary

$197k - $401k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build data platforms, APIs, MCPs, and tools that help AI agents map concepts to warehouse entities.
  • Improve semantic layers for metric definitions, lineage, ownership, and reliability.
  • Build ingestion and infrastructure for timely analytics and experimentation while evaluating freshness, accuracy, reliability, and cost.
  • Develop tools for query drafting, root cause analysis, and visualizations.
  • Own architecture, implementation, production rollout, and adoption.
  • Lead complex technical projects, make cross-team design decisions, resolve dependencies, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and operating a data platform.
  • Track record of leading complex technical projects across teams as an individual contributor.
  • Strong software engineering skills with deep data expertise.
  • Clear technical communication and ability to build alignment with engineers, data scientists, analysts, and product partners.
  • Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, or similar.
  • Preferred experience with AI-agent infrastructure; semantic layers, metrics platforms, data catalogs, or lineage; SQL and Python data pipelines; APIs, SDKs, or self-service platforms; and AI development tools.

Benefits

  • Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
  • The posting states that compensation may include incentive compensation, equity, and benefits, as applicable.
  • The role is offered by Salesforce, but no remote, hybrid, or in-office arrangement is stated.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkApache SupersetAWSDatabricksdbtGoJavaPythonScalaSnowflakeSQLTerraformTypeScript

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Slack

1,001-5,000 employees

Slack is on a mission to make people's working lives simpler, more pleasant and more productive. It is the productivity platform for customer companies that improves performance by empowering everyone with no-code automation, making search and knowledge sharing seamless, and keeping teams connected and engaged as they move work forward together. As part of Salesforce, Slack is deeply integrated into the Salesforce Customer 360, supercharging productivity across sales, service and marketing teams. To learn more and get started with Slack for free, visit slack.com or connect with us @SlackHQ. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to Slack’s values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a pleasant and supportive place to work. Come do the best work of your life here at Slack.

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