[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Data Ingestion - Slack

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Salesforce is the leading AI CRM company, seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Data Ingestion Team at Slack. The role involves designing and developing scalable streaming and batch data pipelines, implementing Lakehouse solutions, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to enhance data ingestion processes.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop highly scalable and resilient streaming and batch pipelines for ingesting and processing structured and unstructured datasets
• Design and implement Slack’s Lakehouse solutions and enable production use cases for customers
• Improve the reliability and performance of the services/pipelines through AI assisted and/or Agentic solutions and tools
• Automate and handle the lifecycle of datasets (schema evolution, metadata management, change and backfill management, deprecation and migration)
• As one of the tech leads, comfortably collaborate with cross functional partners and lead technical initiatives independently end to end
• Be a role model and a multiplier, coaching and mentoring other engineers across the team and the org
• Write, review, or provide feedback on a technical design proposal from others

Skills

• U.S. citizenship and willing to undergo a background check for GovSlack authorization. We can not provide visa sponsorship for this role
• 7+ years of software/data engineering experience, including experience with building applications using Streaming and Lakehouse technologies, e.g. Kafka/Kafka Connect, Flink/Spark Streaming, Iceberg/Hudi/Delta or equivalent
• You have hands on experience and knowledge on building and maintaining batch data pipelines using Spark, Airflow, EMR, S3 or equivalent
• You are proficient in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages: SQL, Python, Java/Scala, Go or equivalent
• You are skilled at crafting and building robust distributed microservices with tools like Kubernetes, Docker, AWS ECS/EKS, Terraform, Grafana, etc
• You are familiar with AI-assisted software development and automation and have hands on experience of Claude Code/Codex or equivalent
• You have excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills; able to effectively collaborate with cross functional partners and explaining sophisticated technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
• Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.

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