Staff Software Engineer - Edge Caching & Distributed Data

Engg; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking engineers for the Slack Infrastructure team focused on Distributed Data Services. You will design, build and maintain edge caching services powering a large portion of Slack's API traffic, collaborating across the engineering stack to ensure reliability and performance.

Role requires 4+ years building scalable systems, strong knowledge of distributed systems, and experience with Go, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience building large-scale systems.
• Experience managing production infrastructure, reliability and uptime.
• Experience with reliable, safe distributed systems and understanding trade-offs.
• Ability to tackle complex issues requiring deep knowledge of the company and architecture.
• Experience with writing unit tests, code review, design docs, debugging and troubleshooting.
• Experience developing and operating web applications professionally.
• Curious, inquisitive, and determined mindset to fix things when they break.
• US Citizen or Green Card holder.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, ship and maintain the Edge caching services used by Slack’s API traffic.
• Collaborate with Engineering to triage bugs and fix production issues across the stack.
• Write code to automate maintenance and reduce manual interventions.
• Review code and participate in code reviews; mentor others.
• Design and build solutions to improve reliability and resilience of services.
• Provide feedback on technical design proposals.
• Participate in on-call rotation and respond to incidents.

Skills

Large-scale systems

Production infrastructure

Distributed systems

Unit tests

Code reviews

Debugging

Web applications

On-call / incident response

Go programming

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

FEDRAMP/NIST

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Go

Job description

Salesforce is seeking engineers for the Slack Infrastructure team focused on Distributed Data Services. You will design, build and maintain edge caching services powering a large portion of Slack's API traffic, collaborating across the engineering stack to ensure reliability and performance.

Role requires 4+ years building scalable systems, strong knowledge of distributed systems, and experience with Go, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.