Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

We are looking for a Staff / Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to join the Data Infrastructure team within Slack’s broader Data Engineering organization. The mission of our team is to build

secure, reliable, and cost‑efficient infrastructure that powers Slack’s data ecosystem, enabling data engineers, analysts, and machine learning practitioners to deliver trusted insights and data products at scale.

What You Will Be Doing

• Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable data infrastructure powering Slack’s analytics, ML, and data‑driven decision‑making.
• Serve as DRI for 1–2 core data services (e.g., EMR, StarRocks, Pinot, Hive Metastore, Airflow, Temporal, Trino), 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 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.

What You Should Have

What We Value

Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and collaborative . We seek engineers who care deeply about craftsmanship, reliability, and empowering others. In our work together, we strive to be smart, humble, hardworking, and—above all—collaborative.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology; Technology, Information and Internet

Equal Opportunity Statement

Slack is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non‑discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Slack, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive and free from discrimination. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions are fair and based on merit.

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