Salesforce Hiring for Staff Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure – Slack at Denver, Colorado Full Time

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About the Team
We are the Search team within the Core Products organization at Slack. Our
product powers the entire Search experience, end-to-end, for all our
customers, to help them find and discover messages, channels, people,
files, and all other entities within their workspaces to make their work
life simpler, more pleasant and more productive. We are looking for a
Backend Engineer with strong infrastructure experience to improve the
performance and reliability of our systems, build features, and design and
implement API methods, as we rapidly scale our product and organization. We
build our app using reliable tools that our team knows and trusts, including
PHP/Hack, Java, MySQL, Solr, Terraform, AWS, and Linux.
Expertise in these areas is a huge plus, but having familiarity with other
common web languages (such as Python or Ruby), cloud technologies, and
other relational databases are fine substitutes. We’re a collaborative team
who genuinely enjoys working together with a cross-functional team of product
managers, designers, frontend, iOS, and Android engineers to make
Slack a better product. We are looking for engineers that understand that
simplicity and reliability are aspects of a system to be carefully calculated
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Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture-we look for people
who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single
day. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and,
above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, why not
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What you will be doing:
You’ll brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and
Frontend Engineers on your team to conceptualize and build new features for
our large (and growing!) user base.
You’ll produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects
that have a significant impact on the business.
You’ll actively own team features or systems and define their long-term
health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
You’ll assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging and
resolving production issues.
You’ll mentor other engineers and deeply review code.
You’ll improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

What you should have:
You’ve been building web applications and operated large scale distributed
systems professionally for 7+ years.
You have experience with functional or imperative programming languages –
e.g., PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, C, or Java.
You have experience with developing high-availability, performant, and
scalable systems accessing large volumes of data over multiple clusters across
different geographical regions
You have experience with planning, executing, and deploying software
migrations and upgrades in a production environment
You can contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive
technical decisions within your team.
You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.
You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to
designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.
You possess solid computer science fundamentals: data structures,
algorithms, programmin languages, distributed systems, and information
retriev
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or
equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.

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