Staff Software Engineer, Data Ingestion

Salesforce

Staff Software Engineer focused on data ingestion solutions at Slack. Building resilient streaming and lakehouse technologies for large datasets and customer needs.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeRemote • California, Texas, Virginia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $197,300 - $313,700 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAWSDockerGoGrafanaJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesPythonScalaSparkSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and develop highly scalable and resilient streaming and batch pipelines for ingesting and processing structured and unstructured datasets
Design and implement Slack’s Lakehouse solutions and enable production use cases for customers
Improve the reliability and performance of the services/pipelines through AI assisted and/or Agentic solutions and tools.
Automate and handle the lifecycle of datasets (schema evolution, metadata management, change and backfill management, deprecation and migration).
Collaborate with cross functional partners and lead technical initiatives independently end to end.
Write, review, or provide feedback on a technical design proposal from others.

Requirements

What you’ll need

U.S. citizenship and willing to undergo a background check for GovSlack authorization
7+ years of software/data engineering experience, including experience with building applications using Streaming and Lakehouse technologies, e.g. Kafka/Kafka Connect, Flink/Spark Streaming, Iceberg/Hudi/Delta or equivalent
hands-on experience and knowledge on building and maintaining batch data pipelines using Spark, Airflow, EMR, S3 or equivalent
proficient in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages: SQL, Python, Java/Scala, Go or equivalent
skilled at crafting and building robust distributed microservices with tools like Kubernetes, Docker, AWS ECS/EKS, Terraform, Grafana, etc.
familiar with AI-assisted software development and automation and have hands-on experience of Claude Code/Codex or equivalent
excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills; able to effectively collaborate with cross-functional partners and explaining sophisticated technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

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

streaming technologiesLakehouse solutionsdata pipelinesAI-assisted solutionsschema evolutionmetadata managementobject-oriented programmingfunctional programmingdistributed microservicesbatch data processing

Soft Skills

collaborationleadershipcommunicationinterpersonal skillstechnical proposal feedback