Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
InformaticaBase Salary
$197k - $314k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate reliable and scalable data infrastructure for Slack’s analytics, machine learning, and data-driven decision-making.
- Serve as DRI for multiple core analytics, compute, and orchestration services, owning uptime, reliability, and performance.
- Improve security, cost efficiency, developer experience, observability, monitoring, and alerting across the data infrastructure.
- Build automation and self-service tools that help data teams adopt and manage data workflows.
- Collaborate with data engineering, platform, and security teams on scalable and well-governed solutions.
- Define technical standards, best practices, and support models with staff and senior engineers.
- Mentor and coach engineers while modeling ownership, collaboration, and operational excellence.
- Build and manage agentic workflows, custom AI skills, and automated software factory pipelines.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including experience supporting data-intensive systems or data platforms.
- Experience building, deploying, and operating distributed infrastructure at scale.
- Strong background with big-data and infrastructure technologies such as EMR, Airflow, Pinot, Trino, Hive Metastore, Kubernetes, or equivalent systems.
- Proficiency in Python, Golang, Bash, and SQL.
- Proficiency with GitHub Actions, Vault, Terraform, Chef, and Grafana.
- Deep understanding of infrastructure reliability, observability, and cost-efficiency principles.
- Hands-on experience supporting data pipelines or data engineering workflows is a strong plus.
- Experience building, managing, and integrating agentic workflows, custom AI skills, automated software factory pipelines, and MCP.
- Strong communication, cross-functional collaboration, ownership, and autonomous delivery skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
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 role is with Salesforce’s Slack organization; no specific remote, hybrid, or in-office arrangement is stated.
- The stated base salary range is $197,300-$313,700 annually, with a separate $237,700-$344,700 annual range for select cities in the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas; bonus, equity, and benefits are excluded.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com