Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Data Services—Edge

Leadout Capital; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Slack is building and operating scalable, highly available backend services that power its largest customers and enterprise features. The Distributed Data Services Team focuses on edge caches, data residency, and secure, reliable infrastructure that keeps Slack running seamlessly at scale.

The team values practical, customer‑first reliability and a strong culture of testing, documentation, and thoughtful architecture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating large-scale systems.
• Hands-on experience managing critical production infrastructure with high uptime.
• Deep experience with reliable distributed systems and the judgment to weigh engineering vs. product trade-offs.
• Strong fundamentals in unit testing, code review, design documentation, debugging, and troubleshooting.
• A curious, determined mindset that gets energized by things breaking.

Skills

10+ years experience building large‑sc

Production infrastructure management

Distributed systems fundamentals

Unit testing & code reviews

Debugging & Troubleshooting

Architectural decision making

Customer‑first reliability

Problem‑solving mindset

Tools

Go programming language exposure

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Slack is building and operating scalable, highly available backend services that power its largest customers and enterprise features. The Distributed Data Services Team focuses on edge caches, data residency, and secure, reliable infrastructure that keeps Slack running seamlessly at scale.

The team values practical, customer‑first reliability and a strong culture of testing, documentation, and thoughtful architecture.