Salesforce

Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Salesforce

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: San Francisco • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $216,300 - $313,700 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AirflowChefGoGrafanaKubernetesPythonSQLTerraformVault

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience
  • 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.
Benefits
  • time off programs
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • mental health support
  • paid parental leave
  • life and disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • employee stock purchasing program

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
PythonGolangBashSQLEMRAirflowPinotStarRocksKubernetesCI/CD
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationownershipmentoringcoachingoperational excellenceproblem-solvingcross-functional teamworkdrive to deliver resultstechnical standards