Senior Software Engineer, DataStores - Slack

To enhance your experience as a job applicant, we recommend applying for a maximum of three roles within a 12-month period to avoid duplicated efforts. Job Category: Software Engineering Job Details About Salesforce: We are Salesforce, the Customer Company. We lead with business into the future using AI + Data + CRM. Our core values guide us in assisting companies across all industries in forging new paths and connecting with their customers in unique ways. Moreover, we empower you to blaze your own trail, driving your professional growth, and contributing positively to the world. If you believe in business as a platform for change and companies doing good while doing well, you've found the right place. The DataStores team at Slack, a part of Salesforce, builds and operates the database platform supporting Slack. We manage thousands of stateful hosts, providing multiple petabytes of online database capacity, making us one of the fastest-growing database platforms globally. Our MySQL databases operate in Vitess. Background: Slack serves as a leading tool for communication and collaboration worldwide. From startups to the largest public companies, teams use Slack to get work done, underlining the importance of performance and reliability. On average, users are connected to Slack for over 10 hours daily, with 2.5 hours of active usage. With over 1.5 billion+ messages sent per month, more than half of them are sent outside the United States. Infrastructure at Slack: Slack operates at an immense scale, processing millions of events per second. Our team ensures the seamless and efficient performance of our systems, including edge services, data stores and caches, real-time messaging, and asynchronous background job processing. Your Role: You will operate and enhance our large, highly available database infrastructure, develop tools for self-service and self-managing capabilities, collaborate with engineering teams on their storage needs, and write code to evaluate database performance. You will also partake in our on-call rotation to resolve production issues and support activities related to FedRAMP and DoD SRG. Requirements: We are seeking candidates with at least five years of experience in data storage, core infrastructure, or distributed system-owning teams. Candidates should have professional experience using programming languages like Go, PHP/Hacklang, Python, Ruby, or Java, and have worked with server software on Linux platforms. Knowledge of deployment automation/configuration management tools and experience operating cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, are also required. Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in the workplace. If you need assistance due to a disability during the application process, please submit an accommodations request. The hiring range for this Colorado-based position is $156,800 to $215,600. Compensation will depend on factors such as location, level, and relevant skills and experience. Some roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at https://www.salesforcebenefits.com. Salesforce does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party agencies without a signed agreement.