Job Description

Salesforce is seeking a candidate to join their Compute team, focusing on designing, building, and maintaining core compute infrastructure using Kubernetes and EC2. The role involves automating configuration management and collaborating with service owners to ensure best practices in a multi-cloud environment.

Requirements

Proven experience managing production-grade infrastructure with Kubernetes and EC2.
Experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
Proficiency in configuration management tools like Chef (or similar, such as Puppet or Ansible).
Experience with package management, ideally with Aptly.
Familiarity with cloud platforms beyond AWS, particularly GCP, is a plus.
Strong scripting skills in a language like Python, Bash, or Go.
Solid understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, etc.) and security best practices.
Excellent problem-solving skills and a collaborative attitude.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain our core compute infrastructure, primarily using Kubernetes and EC2.
Work on our infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform to manage and provision resources.
Automate configuration management with Chef to ensure consistency across our fleet.
Manage our internal software packages using Aptly.
Collaborate with service owners to provide support and guidance on best practices for using our platform.
Participate in on-call rotations to support our production environment and respond to incidents.
Help us research and implement new technologies as we expand into a multi-cloud environment.

Benefits

Employees at Slack, as part of Salesforce, are often offered comprehensive benefits focused on wellbeing and inclusion, including competitive health-care coverage, time off to rest, recharge and volunteer, and holistic programs that support mental health, family planning and overall work–life balance.