Staff Backend Product Engineer (SlackBot)

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 324,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Staff Backend Product Engineer for the SlackBot initiative to design, build, and own systems and APIs that power Slackbot’s search, data integrations, and scale to millions of users.

You will partner with Product Managers, Designers, and engineers to ship high-impact features, drive architecture discussions, and mentor teammates, while balancing speed, cost, and reliability in a highly performant backend stack (PHP/Hack, Java, MySQL, Linux).

Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend web development experience.
• Proficiency in PHP/Hack, Java, MySQL, and Linux is a strong plus.
• Experience building search infrastructures and large-scale APIs is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize and build features for Slackbot's search and data integrations.
• Own core systems and long-term health of API foundations.
• Collaborate with product, design, and other engineers to ship high-impact features.
• Mentor teammates and drive engineering standards across the team.
• Maintain reliable, scalable backend services with strong code quality.

Skills

Backend development

APIs

Search infra

Team mentorship

CS fundamentals

Tools

PHP/Hack

Java

MySQL

Linux

Job description

## Staff Backend Product Engineer (SlackBot)Apply: Office Tech-Flexible: California - San Francisco: Washington - Seattle: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: October 30, 2026 (30+ days left to apply): JR359771*To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.*Job CategorySoftware EngineeringJob Details****About Salesforce****Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.## About the TeamThe **Slackbot** team is at the forefront of a strategic initiative to make Slack the primary interface for AI-powered work — establishing **Slackbot as the on-ramp to AI** and the singular gateway to a company's collective knowledge. We build the intelligent search, automation, and foundational capabilities that make Slackbot delightful, trustworthy, and performant at scale. We own quality, developer experience, and platform foundations for Slackbot: what works today keeps working tomorrow. We measure success by customer outcomes — we do whatever it takes to make Slackbot great. We are a team of product engineers who deeply care about the user experience. We are seeking a product-driven backend engineer with strong intuition and experience who build systems and design APIs with the end user in mind.The OpportunityAs a **Staff Backend Product Engineer**, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and owning the systems and APIs that directly shape Slackbot's product experience — from intelligent search and third-party data integrations to the platform foundations that let Slackbot scale across millions of users. You will ensure these systems are scalable, highly performant, and precisely tailored to real user needs, all while making smart trade-offs between speed, cost, and user experience. If you are a collaborative engineer who understands that **simplicity and reliability are carefully calculated aspects of system design**, this is the role for you.### ## **What You Will Be Doing:*** **Conceptualize and Build:** Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, and other Backend/Frontend Engineers to brainstorm, conceptualize, and build new, high-impact features for Slackbot's large and rapidly growing user base.* **Drive Search & Intelligence:** Contribute to the systems that make Slackbot smarter about finding and surfacing the right information, across any connected source.* **Deliver High-Quality Results:** Contribute heavily to team projects that have a significant, measurable impact on the business and the user experience.* **System Ownership:** Actively own team features or core systems, defining their long-term health and roadmap while improving the health of surrounding integration systems.* **Operational Excellence:** Assist our skilled support and operations teams in triaging and resolving complex production issues.* **Mentorship and Standards:** Mentor other engineers, provide thoughtful and deep code reviews, and drive improvements in engineering standards, tooling, and processes across the team.### ## **What You Should Have:*** **10+ years** of professional experience building and shipping web applications with a focus on backend development.* Proven experience with **functional or imperative programming languages** (e.g., PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, Go, or C). *Expertise in our stack—PHP/Hack, Java, MySQL, and Linux—is a strong plus, but general familiarity with other common web languages and relational databases is a fine substitute.** Experience building **search infrastructure, large-scale APIs, or AI-powered systems** is highly desirable.* The ability to significantly **contribute to technical architecture discussions** and drive critical technical decisions across teams.* A track record of writing **understandable, testable code** with a strong focus on maintainability.* **Solid computer science fundamentals** including data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.* **Strong Communication Skills:** You can clearly explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, including designers, support, and product managers.Unleash Your PotentialWhen you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. 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