Job Description

Salesforce is seeking a Staff/Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to join the Data Infrastructure team at Slack. The role involves designing, building, and operating scalable data infrastructure to support analytics and machine learning, while ensuring reliability and performance across core data services.

Requirements

7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, including time spent supporting data-intensive systems or data platforms.
Proven experience in building, deploying, and operating distributed infrastructure at scale.
Strong technical background with big data and infrastructure technologies such as EMR, Airflow, Pinot, StarRocks, Hive Metastore, Kubernetes, or equivalent systems.
Proficiency in Python, Golang, Bash, and SQL.
Familiarity with CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Vault, Terraform, Chef, and Grafana.
Deep understanding of infrastructure reliability, observability, and cost efficiency principles.
Hands-on experience supporting data pipelines or data engineering workflows is a strong plus.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams.
A strong sense of ownership and a drive to deliver high-impact, autonomous results.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate reliable and scalable data infrastructure powering Slack’s analytics, ML, and data-driven decision-making.
Serve as DRI for 1–2 core data services, ensuring uptime, reliability, and performance.
Drive improvements in security, cost efficiency, and developer experience across our data infrastructure.
Build automation and self-service tools that empower data teams to easily adopt and manage data workflows.
Collaborate closely with data engineering, platform, and security teams to design scalable, well-governed solutions.
Contribute to observability, monitoring, and alerting via Grafana and related tooling.
Partner with other senior engineers to define best practices, technical standards, and support models for Slack’s data ecosystem.
Mentor and coach other engineers, modeling ownership, collaboration, and operational excellence.

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.