Staff/Senior Software Engineer, Salesforce
Data Infrastructure
$200.8-334.6k
Offers employee stock purchasing program
World's leading CRM provider
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World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200.8-334.6k
Offers employee stock purchasing program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for strong technical leaders who can combine hands-on expertise with strategic impact, helping to scale and evolve the backbone of Slack’s data infrastructure as we grow
- 7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, including time spent supporting data-intensive systems or data platforms
- Proven experience in building, deploying, and operating distributed infrastructure at scale
- Strong technical background with big data and infrastructure technologies — such as EMR, Airflow, Pinot, StarRocks, Hive Metastore, Kubernetes, or equivalent systems
- Proficiency in Python, Golang, Bash, and SQL
- Familiarity with CI/CD (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
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams
- A strong sense of ownership and a drive to deliver high-impact, autonomous results
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- Slack is looking for a Staff / Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to join the Data Infrastructure team within the broader Data Engineering organization
- The mission of our team is to build secure, reliable, and cost-efficient infrastructure that powers Slack’s data ecosystem
- We design and operate the core data platforms that enable data engineers, analysts, and machine learning practitioners to deliver trusted insights and data products across Slack
- You’ll play a key role in the design, development, and operation of services that underpin data ingestion, transformation, storage, and orchestration at massive scale
- As a Staff / Senior Engineer, you’ll be a Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for one or more core data services, accountable for uptime, reliability, and performance, and a subject matter expert (SME) across multiple systems over time
- Here are a few examples of what we work on:
- Enabling more realtime OLAP capabilities for internal and external customers
- Scaling our compute and orchestration layer
- Creating and scaling agents to enable engineers and users on their workflow and data needs
- Design, build, and operate reliable and scalable data infrastructure powering Slack’s analytics, ML, and data-driven decision-making
- Serve as DRI for 1–2 core data services (e.g., EMR, StarRocks, Pinot, Hive Metastore, Airflow, Temporal, Trino), ensuring uptime, reliability, and performance
- Drive improvements in security, cost efficiency, and developer experience across our data infrastructure
- Build automation and self-service tools that empower data teams to easily adopt and manage data workflows
- Collaborate closely with data engineering, platform, and security teams to design scalable, well-governed solutions
- Contribute to observability, monitoring, and alerting via Grafana and related tooling
- Partner with other senior engineers to define best practices, technical standards, and support models for Slack’s data ecosystem
- Mentor and coach other engineers, modeling ownership, collaboration, and operational excellence
Our take
Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.
By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.
Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.
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Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2001
$46.9m
SERIES D
Nov 1999
$13.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $64.5m
Company benefits
- With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Marc Benioff
(Chair & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.
Parker Harris
(CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.
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