Slack
Software
Sr.SoftwareEngineer,CloudInfrastructure
“Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure at Slack. Skills: Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform. Lead software projects end-to-end. Architect and build a next-generation internal platform”
What You'll Achieve.
Keeping Slack fast, reliable, and cost-efficient; Maximize cloud value; Drive millions of dollars in cloud cost savings annually; Give engineering teams a powerful foundation to innovate quickly; Provide deep, real-time visibility into system health and bottlenecks
Industry & Context.
Analyze, optimize, and improve reliability; Troubleshoot and debug complex issues
Participate in on-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
U. S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency (Green Card holder), Proven ability to analyze, optimize, and improve reliability in high-traffic, production internet applications, Deep, hands-on AWS experience — broad familiarity across many services with deep expertise in at least a few, Demonstrated experience deploying cloud applications and managing infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation, ability to troubleshoot and debug complex issues across infrastructure, applications, and distributed systems, Experience working with Kubernetes (K8s), computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, programming languages, and information retrieval, Proficiency in one or more functional or imperative programming languages — Python, Go, or PHP preferred, Hands-on experience with software engineering, scripting, automation, and orchestration tools (e. g. , Bash, Chef, Jenkins, Terraform), Extensive, production-grade experience provisioning, configuring, and maintaining AWS environments, Experience managing large-scale Kubernetes systems (EKS or Bare Metal)
Nice to Have
Deep expertise in core AWS services such as EKS, EC2, IAM, Fargate, S3, or Lambda, AWS Professional or Specialty certification(s), Experience designing or operating large-scale, high-volume distributed systems, A proven history of driving significant cloud cost reductions at scale, Familiarity with observability tooling (e. g. , Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) and SRE practices
What You'll Do.
Lead software projects end-to-end
Architect and build a next-generation internal platform
Deliver cutting-edge solutions leveraging containerization
and improve Terraform modules
Design and implement an in-house system to deploy
and scale applications
Partner directly with development teams to identify performance bottlenecks
Drive cloud efficiency improvements
trusted relationships with service owners
Champion a culture of platform efficiency
Mentor and grow junior engineers
Make a measurable financial impact
Participate in on-call rotation
Collaborate with our operations team to triage and resolve production incidents
Build observability and introspection tooling
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with teams across Slack; Partner directly with development teams; Build strong, trusted relationships with service owners; Collaborate with our operations team
Communication Scope
Sharing knowledge; Writing runbooks; Leading internal enablement sessions
Process & Methodology
Scoping, Architecture, Delivery, Iteration, Long-term ownership
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