Staff Software Engineer, Observability

**Job Category**:Products and Technology

**Job Details

As part of the Monitoring Infrastructure team, you will be focused on our log pipelines and work closely with other teams in engineering, product development, and customer experience to provide valuable insights to drive decisions and ensure a positive user experience for our Slack customers. You will also help build and maintain distributed services in an environment that processes millions of data points per second with the ability to self-heal and scale up or down to meet demand. We are an inclusive team with deep empathy for our colleagues and customers.

Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, hardworking, and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, why not say hello?

**About the Role**
This is a remote senior engineering position based in the United States or Canada.

**What you will be doing**:

- Build, maintain, and ensure timely delivery of our high-volume event log pipelines.
- Create libraries, tools, and automation to help ensure that critical event data gets to the right place.
- Encouraging a culture of Observability at Slack - help suss out problem areas and consult on improving visibility into our systems.
- Prototyping tooling interfaces or building new features for engineering use cases.
- Improving auto-remediation in our logging infrastructure to avoid recurring failures.
- Teaching engineers or customer experience agents how to use our tools to introspect their systems.
- Participating in the Monitoring Infrastructure on-call rotation, triaging, and addressing production issues as they arise.

**What you should have**:

- You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.
- You enjoy helping onboard new team members, mentoring, and teaching others.
- You live for unit tests, code review, design documentation, debugging, and solving problems.
- You have a deep curiosity about how things work under the hood.
- You are motivated by helping others succeed. When things break and they will you are eager and able to help fix things. You like thinking of ways to improve efficiency or bring delight to your coworkers.
- You care about improving the performance of systems through data-informed decisions.
- You also know that the internet is a scary place and understand security concepts deeply and can put them into action to protect us and our users.

**Qualifications**:
Minimum:

- Firm grasp of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

**Preferred**:

- Experience with functional or imperative programming languages - e.g., PHP, Python, Go, C, or Java (used without frameworks).
- Experience with creating interfaces, tooling, or automation to help define a path for engineers to self-service.
- Experience deploying, operating, and debugging server software on Linux at scale

**Bonus Points**:

- Passionate about data visualization, graphing, and maximizing signal versus noise.
- Experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
- Solid competency with Prometheus, OpenTracing, or any other widely-used monitoring/visibility platform.
- Prior experience with or knowledge of large scale, high volume distributed systems, distributed databases, and data pipelines.
- Experience with containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes.
- Experience using deployment automation/configuration management, especially Terraform or Chef.
- Experience with AWS and other virtualized environments.
- Experience with message queue services, such as Kafka.
- For Colorado-based roles: Minimum annual salary of $142,000. You may also be entitled to receive a _bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.**Accommodations

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