Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Salesforce

Staff Software Engineer at Slack designing and operating data infrastructure powering analytics and ML. Collaboration with engineers to enhance data services and ensure reliability.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $197,300 - $313,700 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowChefGoGrafanaKubernetesPythonSQLTerraformVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and operate reliable and scalable data infrastructure powering Slack’s analytics, ML, and data-driven decision-making.
Serve as DRI for multiple core data services specifically on our analytics infrastructure (e.g., StarRocks, Pinot, and Trino), ensuring uptime, reliability, and our compute and orchestration services (e.g., Airflow, Temporal, EMR, Hive Metastore).
Drive improvements in security, cost efficiency, and developer experience across our data infrastructure.
Build automation and self-service tools that empower our team and other data teams to easily adopt and manage data workflows.
Collaborate closely with data engineering, platform, and security teams to design scalable, well-governed solutions.
Build and enhance our observability, monitoring, and alerting on our services via Grafana and related tooling.
Partner with other staff and 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

What you’ll need

U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency (Green Card holder)
10+ years of software, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience
Excellent communication skills
Proven experience in building, deploying, and operating distributed infrastructure at scale
Strong technical background with big data and infrastructure technologies (e.g., Pinot, StarRocks, Trino, EMR, Airflow, Hive Metastore, Kubernetes)
Proficiency in Python, Golang, Bash, and SQL
Proficiency 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
A strong sense of ownership and a drive to deliver high-impact, autonomous results.

Benefits

Comp & perks

time off programs
medical
dental
vision
mental health support
paid parental leave
life and disability insurance
401(k)
employee stock purchasing program

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonGolangBashSQLCI/CDGitHub ActionsTerraformChefGrafanabig data

Soft Skills

communicationownershipcollaborationoperational excellence