Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

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Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Slack is looking for a senior software engineer to join the Data Platform team. This team is responsible for growing the trust and usage of metrics by improving the consistency, accuracy, and velocity through tooling. We build and maintain a reliable, trusted, and managed platform to enable standardized and consistent set of metrics.

We are looking for people who are product-focused, have deep technical skills and are comfortable contributing to a growing analytics platform. You are independent and passionate about having a huge impact at Slack. You will translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions to enable data analysis to support the business.

In this role, you will help empower the entire Slack product org to become more data-driven. You will collaborate and enable product owners to configure key product and business metrics with centralized governance for maintaining high level of quality & desired landing time SLA

What you will be doing:

  • Design and drive execution of our metrics framework and platform roadmap to build highly resilient, scalable and reliable means of data consumption to work well within SLA limits

  • Partner with advanced users of data, Analysts and Product teams to understand current and future data needs around metrics and tracking/rollout of the same

  • Find potential opportunities for building new tools to scale and provide self-service solutions

  • Focus on release automation, making use of technologies like Docker, Kubernetes for the CI/CD pipeline

  • Identify, document and promote data engineering methodologies throughout Slack

What you should have:

  • Proven track record of building web applications professionally for 5+ years.

  • Experience with functional or imperative programming languages -- e.g., PHP, Python, Ruby, Go or Java.

  • Ability to lead technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team.

  • Write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.

  • Experience using Big data technologies like Spark, Kafka, Airflow, EMR, Hive, Presto etc

  • Technical knowledge and proficiency with SQL to perform data acquisition, segmentation, and aggregation from multifaceted data sources

  • Proven ability working in data architecture, metadata management, backfill management, deprecation and migration is a plus

  • Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to optimally collaborate with technical and business partners

  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

Come join us!

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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 say hello?

Slack is registered as an employer in many, but not all, states. If you are not located in or able to work from a state where Slack is registered, you will not be eligible for employment.Visa sponsorship may not be available in certain remote locations.

Visa sponsorship is not available for candidates living outside the country of this position.

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For Colorado-based roles: Minimum annual salary of $150,000. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.getsalesforcebenefits.com/

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At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at Salesforce and explore our benefits.

Salesforce, Inc. and Salesforce.org are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce, Inc. and Salesforce.org do not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce, Inc. and Salesforce.org will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce, Inc. or Salesforce.org.

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