Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Data Services - Slack
Salesforce1 month ago
Atlanta, GA, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$197k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate performant, highly available, reliable, and scalable distributed services for Slack.
- Own critical production infrastructure and drive reliability, uptime, and operational safety.
- Develop services including edge caches, enterprise key management, data residency, image proxying, and other core Slack functionality.
- Untangle complex issues involving existing architecture and make sound engineering-versus-product trade-offs.
- Apply unit testing, code review, design documentation, debugging, and troubleshooting practices.
- Support globally distributed customers and compliance requirements with minimal latency.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship or permanent residency is required; visa sponsorship is not available.
- 10+ years of professional experience building and operating large-scale systems, with concrete examples of shipped and owned work.
- Hands-on experience managing critical production infrastructure and driving reliability and uptime.
- Deep experience with reliable, safe distributed systems and engineering-versus-product trade-offs.
- Experience resolving complex issues requiring deep knowledge of existing architecture.
- Strong professional experience with web applications, unit testing, code review, design documentation, debugging, and troubleshooting.
- Go programming language exposure is preferred.
- Experience with AWS, Docker containers, Kubernetes, and highly regulated environments using FEDRAMP or NIST frameworks is preferred.
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 based on the stated U.S. employment eligibility requirements; no remote or hybrid arrangement is specified.
- The compensation range is base salary only and excludes bonus, equity, and benefits.
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.