Base Salary
$197k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, ship, and maintain edge caching services supporting approximately 35% of Slack API traffic.
- Collaborate with engineering peers to triage bugs and resolve sophisticated production issues across the service stack.
- Write automation to maintain services and reduce manual intervention.
- Review code, receive code reviews, and mentor and learn from other engineers.
- Design and build solutions that improve service reliability and resilience.
- Write, review, and provide feedback on technical design proposals.
- Participate in the on-call rotation, triage production issues, and respond to incidents.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.
- At least 6 years of professional experience building large-scale systems.
- Experience managing critical production infrastructure, maintaining reliability and uptime, and prioritizing operational safety.
- Experience with reliable, safe distributed systems and engineering and product trade-offs.
- Experience analyzing complex issues requiring in-depth knowledge of company architecture.
- Professional experience developing and operating web applications, including unit testing, code review, design documentation, debugging, and troubleshooting.
- US citizenship or Green Card status is required.
- Preferred experience with Go, AWS, Docker containers, Kubernetes, and FEDRAMP/NIST frameworks.
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 stated base salary range is $197,300–$313,700 annually, or $237,700–$344,700 annually in select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan locations; bonus, equity, and benefits are excluded from the range.
About Slack
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.