Performance Engineer: Cloud Infra & Spring Boot

Slack; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 81,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth coaching

Mentor

Benefits

Flexible hours

Job summary

Slack is seeking a Performance Engineer in Costa Mesa, CA to optimize cloud infrastructure and scale Spring Boot systems under pressure. The role blends hands-on coding with people management, using PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Nginx to deliver fast, reliable performance.

Founded by engineers who believe small teams ship great software, Slack now serves customers nationwide from its Costa Mesa, CA office. Competitive salary and growth coaching are provided.

Qualifications

• Experience translating Git complexity for a non-technical audience.
• A knack for People Management that colleagues quietly come to rely on.
• Hands-on command of PHP, with Ruby on Rails as a close second.

Responsibilities

• Trim Slack's cloud bill by right-sizing the C# infrastructure in Costa Mesa, CA.
• Bridge Time Management and Nginx so the two halves of Slack's platform finally talk.
• Build Spring Boot dashboards so Slack's technology team stops asking engineers for numbers.
• Spike a Webpack proof of concept fast when Slack needs a yes-or-no answer.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using Nginx.
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production.
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that Slack users feel every click.
• Deliver junior-quality features within the $81,000 - $120,000 Performance Engineer mandate.

Skills

People management

Git

Tools

PHP

Ruby on Rails

Nginx

Spring Boot

Webpack

Job description

Slack is seeking a Performance Engineer in Costa Mesa, CA to optimize cloud infrastructure and scale Spring Boot systems under pressure. The role blends hands-on coding with people management, using PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Nginx to deliver fast, reliable performance.

Founded by engineers who believe small teams ship great software, Slack now serves customers nationwide from its Costa Mesa, CA office. Competitive salary and growth coaching are provided.