Software Engineer, Deployment Engineering

**Job Category **:Products and Technology

**Job Details**:
**About the Team**:
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?

**What you will be doing**
- You will directly support multiple components of Slack’s webserving infrastructure, including Apache, HHVM, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS services.
- You will collaboratively help support additional software components at Slack that work in conjunction with the webapp. Examples include: Consul, Envoy, Chef, Terraform, databases and caching services
- You will help develop new deployment mechanisms for our webapp infrastructure, such as: canary, A/B, blue/green, red-line and other deployment patterns
- You will lead large engineering projects, from start to finish, where the scope is mostly understood
- You will define SLA/SLOs for the Slack webapp, manage code deployments, fixes and software updates, and automate our operational processes
- You will review code and get your code reviewed; mentor and be mentored by other engineers. Teamwork is what makes the dream work.

**What you should have**:

- Curiosity about how things work and love to share that knowledge with others.
- Experience working on critical production infrastructure, maintaining reliability and uptime, and having a “customer first” view of operational safety.
- A positive approach that embraces standard methodologies for software management and reliability, including unit testing, code review, design documentation, debugging, and troubleshooting.
- At least 3 years of exposure around managing critical production infrastructure.
- A passion for reliability, scaling patterns, up-time, and availability.
- A demonstrable history of thriving within a software development team, even if your roles have included traditional operations and/or infrastructure management duties.

**Qualifications**:

- Professional imperative programming languages - e.g., PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, C, or Java (used without frameworks).
- 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 or work experience.
- Experience developing and managing modern public cloud infrastructure, especially AWS.

**Bonus Points**:

- You’ve acted as platform or infrastructure engineer building and managing reliability mechanisms on distributed infrastructure.
- Experience deploying, operating and debugging software on Linux at scale.
- You possess hands-on experience managing full-stack infrastructure, i.e. networking, storage, virtualization and/or host hardware, configuration management and packaging.
- You’ve used deployment automation/configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible or Salt.
- with Incident Response programs and processes; including triaging and resolving production incidents at an organization with challenging SLAs and customer expectations

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