Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
Salesforce3 days ago
Base Salary
$197k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable data infrastructure for Slack’s analytics, ML, and data-driven decision-making.
- Serve as the directly responsible individual for core analytics, compute, and orchestration services, including uptime, reliability, and performance.
- Improve infrastructure security, cost efficiency, developer experience, observability, monitoring, and alerting.
- Build automation and self-service tools that help data teams adopt and manage workflows.
- Collaborate with data engineering, platform, and security teams on scalable and well-governed solutions.
- Define technical standards and support models with other Staff and Senior Engineers.
- Mentor and coach engineers while modeling ownership, collaboration, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including experience with data-intensive systems or data platforms.
- Proven 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 preferred.
- Experience building, managing, and integrating agentic workflows, custom AI skills, automated software factory pipelines, and MCP.
- Strong communication, cross-functional collaboration, ownership, and autonomous execution 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.
- Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations during the application and recruiting process.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
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.