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Job Category Products and Technology Job Details Staff Engineer: Edge Services, Core Infrastructure
Slack enables people all over the world to communicate and collaborate together. Teams of all sizes — from the world’s largest public companies to the smallest of startups — use Slack to get work done. We work at a tremendous scale, aiming for 5 9s of uptime for all services.
We operate at tremendous scale with systems that process millions of events per second. Our team maintains and builds the lower levels of our stack, including:
The Edge Services Team
We are a small team building critical services that enable Slack to scale for our largest customers. Flannel , our edge cache, powers the most latency-critical queries for our largest entities today.
We power core Slack functionality such as shared channels, our privacy-preserving image proxy, and many other key day-to-day parts of our customer’s experience. We are building infrastructure for Change Data Capture to power multiple applications at Slack. We have a strong commitment to quality, and understand that simplicity and reliability are the foundations of our work.
We are actively building the future of edge caching at Slack, so we can support a growing number of customers without increasing complexity.
If you were to join Slack, here are the types of things you would do over the course of a typical week:
Come join us!
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.
Accommodations
If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form .
Posting Statement
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.com 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.com and Salesforce.org do not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce.com and Salesforce.org will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.com or Salesforce.org .
Salesforce welcomes all.
Job Category Products and Technology Job Details Staff Engineer: Edge Services, Core Infrastructure
Slack enables people all over the world to communicate and collaborate together. Teams of all sizes — from the world’s largest public companies to the smallest of startups — use Slack to get work done. We work at a tremendous scale, aiming for 5 9s of uptime for all services.
- 1M Slack messages sent per minute via the API
- 300M events per minute broadcast to Slack clients
- 90B database queries per day
- 6B background jobs enqueued per day
- 2T metrics collected per day
We operate at tremendous scale with systems that process millions of events per second. Our team maintains and builds the lower levels of our stack, including:
- Edge services
- Data Stores and Caches
- Data Streaming and Change Data Capture
- Real-time messaging and event fanout
- Asynchronous background job processing
The Edge Services Team
We are a small team building critical services that enable Slack to scale for our largest customers. Flannel , our edge cache, powers the most latency-critical queries for our largest entities today.
We power core Slack functionality such as shared channels, our privacy-preserving image proxy, and many other key day-to-day parts of our customer’s experience. We are building infrastructure for Change Data Capture to power multiple applications at Slack. We have a strong commitment to quality, and understand that simplicity and reliability are the foundations of our work.
We are actively building the future of edge caching at Slack, so we can support a growing number of customers without increasing complexity.
If you were to join Slack, here are the types of things you would do over the course of a typical week:
- Design, build, ship and maintain the Edge caching services that serves ~20% of all of Slack's API traffic and is critical to Slack’s core functionality.
- Collaborate with peers in Engineering to triage bugs and fix sophisticated production issues across the stack related to our services.
- Whiteboard a fix to a scaling or reliability problem, then make it happen.
- Write, review, or provide feedback on a technical design proposal from other infrastructure teams.
- Have a BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field/ equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.
- Have built large-scale systems professionally for 5+ years and can point to things you’ve worked on.
- Have built reliable, safe distributed systems and understand the engineering and product trade-offs, and how to make a case for either.
- Work on complex issues where the analysis requires an in-depth knowledge of the company and existing architecture.
- Love to model modern methodologies for unit tests, code review, design documentation, debugging, and troubleshooting. You've been developing and operating web applications professionally and can talk at length to things you and your teams have built
- Are curious, inquisitive, and determined to fix things when they break.
- Experience with the Go programming language
- Experience with AWS
- Experience building and releasing software using Docker containers
- Experience with Kubernetes
Come join us!
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.
Accommodations
If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form .
Posting Statement
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.com 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.com and Salesforce.org do not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce.com and Salesforce.org will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.com or Salesforce.org .
Salesforce welcomes all.
Job Summary
| Job ID | : | 747 |
| Company | : | Slack |
| Location | : | Worldwide |
| Job Type | : | Full-time |
| Primary Tag | : | Software Development |
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Website:
https://www.linkedin.com/products/categories/enterprise-messaging-software
Job Posted:
3 years ago