Staff Backend Product Engineer (SlackBot)
Salesforce1 day ago
Base Salary
$197k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own scalable backend systems and APIs that shape Slackbot’s product experience.
- Develop intelligent search, information-surfacing, third-party integrations, and platform foundations for millions of users.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend and frontend engineers to deliver high-impact features.
- Define the long-term health and roadmap of team features and core systems.
- Assist support and operations teams with triaging and resolving complex production issues.
- Mentor engineers, provide deep code reviews, and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
- Contribute to technical architecture discussions and drive critical technical decisions across teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience building and shipping web applications with a backend development focus.
- Experience with functional or imperative programming languages such as PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, Go, or C.
- Experience with PHP/Hack, Java, MySQL, and Linux is a strong plus; familiarity with other web languages and relational databases may substitute.
- Experience with search infrastructure, large-scale APIs, or AI-powered systems is highly desirable.
- Strong ability to contribute to architecture discussions and drive cross-team technical decisions.
- Track record of writing understandable, testable, maintainable code.
- Solid computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to nontechnical stakeholders.
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–$323,700 annually, or $237,700–$344,700 annually in select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan-area locations; compensation figures are excluded from benefit details.
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.