Sr. Software Engineer, Compute Platform - Slack

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Applications will be accepted until 10/24/2025.

Job Details
Slack empowers global communication and collaboration, serving everyone from the largest public companies to the smallest startups. We prioritize performance and reliability at an impressive scale:

• Our users spend over a billion minutes active in our product each day during the week.

• At peak times, Slack handles a million messages per minute.

• We support over 15 million simultaneously connected users daily.

• For millions, Slack is their primary communication tool for work and beyond, and they expect it to be exceptionally reliable and fast year-round.

About the Team
The Compute team at Slack provides a robust platform for service owners to build and deploy their applications. We manage the core infrastructure, ensuring a reliable and scalable environment for development teams. Our responsibilities include maintaining and evolving our Kubernetes and EC2 infrastructure, and we are currently exploring multi-cloud strategies, including GCP. We are a small, collaborative team that values ownership, automation, and continuous improvement.

What you will be doing: 

• Design, build, and maintain our core compute infrastructure, primarily using Kubernetes and EC2.

• Utilize Terraform for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to manage and provision resources.

• Automate configuration management with Chef to ensure consistency across our fleet.

• Manage our internal software packages using Aptly.

• Collaborate with service owners to provide support and guidance on best practices for using our platform.

• Participate in on-call rotations to support our production environment and respond to incidents.

• Research and implement new technologies as we expand into a multi-cloud environment, including exploring multi-architecture support for our containerized workloads.

What you should have: 

• Proven experience managing production-grade infrastructure with Kubernetes and EC2.

• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.

• Experience with configuration management tools like Chef (or similar, such as Puppet or Ansible).

• Familiarity with package management, ideally with Aptly.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms beyond AWS, particularly GCP, is a plus.

• Strong scripting skills in languages like Python, Bash, or Go.

• Solid understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, etc.) and security best practices.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and a collaborative attitude.

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