Sr. Software Engineer, Platform Orchestration - Slack

Slack•Seattle, WA

1d•$172,500 - $285,800•Remote

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer for the Platform Orchestration team at Slack. This team is responsible for building and operating the foundational systems that manage service deployment, operation, and monitoring across Slack’s infrastructure. The goal is to create a unified, automated, and scalable platform that enables engineering teams to deliver reliable and compliant services efficiently. The team's systems integrate deeply with AWS cloud infrastructure to ensure consistency, reliability, and control at scale, abstracting complexity and standardizing best practices. Ultimately, the team enables other Slack teams to build and operate resilient, efficient, and scalable services.

Requirements

U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency (Green Card holder).
Strong software engineering fundamentals, writing clean, maintainable code and designing systems that scale.
Engineering rigor applied to platform and infrastructure work.
Curiosity and a systems mindset, with a deep interest in platform layers and infrastructure orchestration.
A strong grasp of reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency, especially in the context of deploying and managing distributed systems.
A collaborative, mentoring mindset, modeling engineering best practices around testing, design, documentation, and operational excellence.
Solid experience operating backend systems in production.
Hands-on experience with AWS, comfortable navigating complex environments with depth in at least a few core services.
Experience building infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, with a preference for reusable and maintainable abstractions.
A passion for creating platform solutions that empower engineering teams to move faster, be more reliable, and operate with confidence.
A pragmatic approach to problem-solving, with a drive to automate and simplify operations at scale.

Nice To Haves

Deep knowledge of specific AWS domains such as IAM, EC2, or networking.
AWS certifications (Professional or Specialty-level).
Experience building or maintaining platforms that support high-scale CI/CD, service orchestration, or incident automation.
Demonstrated success in reducing cloud costs or improving platform efficiency through tooling or automation.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end delivery of software projects that improve how services are deployed, managed, and observed across Slack’s infrastructure.
Design and build foundational orchestration systems that enable reliable, scalable, and compliant service operations.
Develop tools that streamline continuous delivery, automate incident workflows, and track service health and reliability metrics.
Implement platform solutions using infrastructure-as-code, automation frameworks, and AWS-native services to drive consistency and scalability.
Collaborate closely with engineering teams to integrate platform capabilities into their workflows empowering them to ship faster and operate more reliably.
Contribute to and extend internal frameworks that support deployment workflows, service ownership, and lifecycle management.
Advocate for platform efficiency and cost-conscious engineering through tooling, automation, and cross-team engagement.
Drive adoption of best practices in service orchestration and cloud resource usage ultimately helping Slack deliver better experiences at lower operational cost.