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Senior Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure

Slack
Seattle, WA Full-time 12/19/2025 $167.3k - $276.1k per year
Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience

Job Description

Salesforce is seeking a candidate for a role in their Core Infrastructure team at Slack, focusing on maintaining and enhancing a large database infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in data storage and distributed systems, and will collaborate with engineering teams to ensure high performance and reliability.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in data storage, core infrastructure, or distributed systems
  • Professional experience using Go, PHP/Hacklang, Python, Ruby, or Java
  • Experience operating a distributed system at scale
  • Proficient in deploying server software on Linux
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS
  • Familiarity with deployment automation/configuration management tools like Chef, Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
  • Strong communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Operate and enhance large, highly-available database infrastructure using MySQL and Vitess
  • Develop tools for self-service and self-managing capabilities of database infrastructure
  • Collaborate with engineering teams on database storage needs
  • Write code to capture database performance and create actionable insights
  • Participate in on-call rotation and resolve production issues
  • Support FedRAMP and DoD SRG activities

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.