Slack Proactive Monitoring Engineer

Salesforce.com, inc.; Washington (IL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchasing program

Job summary

Salesforce.com, inc. is seeking a Slack Proactive Monitoring (ProM) Engineer to safeguard the health and performance of our largest global enterprise deployments, Enterprise Grid.

You will continuously monitor dashboards, performance thresholds, API integrations, and security events, proactively detecting anomalies and coordinating rapid mitigation with CS and Support. The role emphasizes triage across multiple tools, RCA investigations, and close collaboration with Engineering and SRE teams to

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in technical support, site reliability engineering, or a related operations role.
• Hands-on observability and monitoring tool experience.
• Strong ability to read, analyze logs, metrics, and traces.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to convey technical findings to diverse audiences.
• Experience using AI tools to optimize workflows and productivity.

Responsibilities

• Monitor dashboards and telemetry for early signals of degradation.
• Triage alerts from multiple sources to identify patterns before customers report issues.
• Monitor Slack platform health, latency signals, queues, and database capacity.
• Oversee critical automations, EKM operations, and IDP syncs.
• Coordinate proactive outreach with Customer Success and Support teams.
• Partner with Incident Management to elevate signals meeting incident thresholds.
• Conduct RCA and document findings in internal systems.
• Collaborate with Engineering and SRE to drive rapid remediation.
• Advise clients on misconfigurations and prevent downtime.
• Develop Slack-based automations to streamline proactive monitoring.

Skills

Communication skills

AI tools usage

Problem solving

Tools

Grafana

Splunk

Datadog

PagerDuty

Job description

As a Slack Proactive Monitoring (ProM) Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of platform engineering, site reliability, and strategic customer success. You are a highly technical, customer‑centric specialist dedicated to safeguarding the health and performance of Slack’s largest and most complex global enterprise deployments (Enterprise Grid).

Rather than waiting for customers to report problems, you will continuously monitor Slack workspace metrics, performance thresholds, API integrations, enterprise security events, and custom app behavior. You will proactively detect anomalies, triage system exceptions, and orchestrate rapid mitigation steps—frequently initiating preemptive customer outreach before their internal users even experience a slowdown.

Key Responsibilities

• Continuously monitor dashboards, alerting systems, and telemetry data (error rates, latency spikes, API failures, deployment anomalies) for early signals of degradation.
• Triage and correlate alerts from multiple sources (Splunk, internal tools, etc) to identify patterns before customers report issues.
• Actively monitor Slack platform health dashboards, network latency signals, message delivery queues, and database capacities for high‑frequency workspaces.
• Monitor critical custom automations, Slack Workflow Builder runs, Enterprise Key Management (EKM) operations, and Identity Provider (IDP) authentication syncs.
• Identify customers potentially affected by degraded service conditions and coordinate proactive outreach with Customer Success and Support teams.
• Partner with the Incident Management team to elevate signals that meet incident‑threshold criteria.
• Technical Advisory: Partner with Customer Success Managers and Success Architects to deliver annual technical health check reviews, assessing platform metrics, configuration limits, and custom integration health.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) on proactively detected issues, documenting findings in internal case and incident management systems.
• Work closely with Engineering and SRE teams to drive rapid remediation of identified issues.
• Intervene in low‑risk system exceptions (e.g., advising clients on misconfigured Slack Webhooks, API rate limit exhaustion, or broken Salesforce-Slack app connections) before they trigger widespread downtime.
• Build and maintain Slack‑based automations and workflows to streamline proactive monitoring operations.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in technical support, site reliability engineering, or a related operations role.
• Hands‑on experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, PagerDuty, or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of cloud‑based SaaS architecture, APIs, and common failure modes.
• Proficiency in reading and analyzing logs, metrics, and traces.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to clearly convey technical findings to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage modern AI tools to optimize workflows, conduct research, and enhance daily productivity.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience working with Slack platform (Slack API, Slack workflows, Bolt framework).
• Familiarity with Salesforce Service Cloud / OrgCS case management.
• Experience in a customer‑facing support engineering or reliability role at a SaaS company.
• ITIL, SRE, or similar certification.

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

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