Senior database administrator [h1.location_city]

Software Engineering

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Slack enables people all over the world to communicate and collaborate together. Teams of all scales from the world's largest public companies to the smallest of startups use Slack to get work done, so we take performance and reliability very seriously.

A taste of our scale :

• 5 billion+ messages are sent per week, half of those outside the United States
• Every day we see over 10M+ daily active users, 30+ billion web requests, and 200+ billion database queries.

For millions of people, Slack is the primary communication tool they use at work all day long. They expect it to be exceptionally reliable and fast, all the time.

Core Infrastructure at Slack

We operate at tremendous scale with systems that process millions of events per second. Teams in our group maintain and build the lower levels of our stack, including :

We know we've done our job correctly when none of our users think about us. We don't typically ship new user-facing features, but rather ensure our systems are incredibly performant, highly available, reliable, and scalable. In other words, Slack just works seamlessly.

Slack's API and web backend is built on PHP / Hack, our backend services are written in Java and Go, and we use Vitess as our storage engine. Our architecture is constantly evolving to handle millions more users. You can read about how we scaled our datastores with Vitess, how we respond to incidents, and much more on our blog.

If you were to join Slack, here the types of things you would do over the course of a typical week :

You may be a fit for this role if you :

Core Infrastructure is a diverse and inclusive team that treats their colleagues exceptionally well. We are happy to help you learn what you need to know; we encourage and support each other's growth and thus it's not expected that you would have expertise across all of these areas.

Come join us!

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