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Staff Software Engineer, Core Libraries - Slack Join to apply for the Staff Software Engineer, Core Libraries - Slack role at Salesforce . About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action; tech meets trust. Innovation is a way of life. We are looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at its heart. About Slack Slack enables people worldwide to communicate and collaborate. Our teams of all scales use Slack to get work done, so we take performance and reliability very seriously. The average user spends over 10 hours connected and 2.5 hours active daily. 1.5?billion+ messages are sent per month, half outside the U.S. We see >10?M daily active users, >1?billion web requests, and tens of billions of database queries. We handle ~600k requests per second, summing to ~6?billion API requests served per day. For millions of people, Slack is the primary communication tool they use at work all day long. About The Team The Webapp Infra (WIN) pillar provides tools for developers to work in a multi-million line codebase safely and productively. WIN handles maintenance and upgrades of the Hack programming language, static analysis tooling, widely used libraries, asynchronous job queue, and tuning/debugging of the HHVM runtime and its services. The Core Libraries sub?team focuses on maintaining and developing the Webapp API, language tooling, and enabling co?development with infrastructure and product features. What You Will Be Doing Collaborate with peers across Engineering to triage bugs and troubleshoot complex production issues, especially concerning performance, memory, and stability. Write, review, or provide feedback on technical design proposals. Maintain client libraries that give backend engineers access to all Webapp platform capabilities. Work with Webapp Hack Language static analysis tooling (Hakana), health score tooling, legacy code migration, metadata insights (Census), and error tooling infra (Sieve). Own the direction and growth of Webapp standard libraries and Core Service client, covering encryption, storage, caching, and other features. Engage Webapp customers through NPS surveys, interviews, best?practice sharing, and developer advocacy to understand challenges faced by product developers at Slack. What You Should Have Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, operating systems, distributed systems. Systems thinking: reason about queues, retries, concurrency, contention to build useful models. Experience with Linux and common debugging/profiling tools. 810?years building large?scale systems and a portfolio of past work. Experience improving performance and reliability of complex systems. Experience with SaaS deploymentsdeployed code to live production environments safely and efficiently. Comfort in low?guardrail situations and driving improvements. Write clear, maintainable code. Strong communication skills, explaining complex concepts to diverse audiences. Leadership in cross?functional projects and setting systems architecture vision. Curiosity, eagerness to investigate issues, and ability to resolve them. Mentoring and coaching engineers, giving constructive feedback. Bonus Points Experience with Hack, HHVM, or open?source contributions. Proven record building and leading codebases or open?source teams. Track record in dev advocacy and user?focused progress. Experience profiling/debugging systems software (runtime, database, web server, VM, OS). Built a team from the ground up and established norms and feedback loops. Accommodations If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions, please submit a request via the Accommodations Request Form. Posting Statement Salesforce is an equal?opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non?discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. We evaluate all candidates on merit, competence, and qualificationswithout regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by location, job level, knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits including time?off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details at For Washington?based roles, the base salary range for this position is $211,500 to $306,600. For California?based roles, the range is $230,800 to $334,600. Unleash Your Potential When you join Salesforce, youll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, well bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. #J-18808-Ljbffr Salesforce

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