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Overview Senior Engineer, Database Infrastructure - Slack role at Slack. Slack enables people around the world to communicate and collaborate together. Our Datastores team builds and operates the database platform powering Slack. We write software to manage thousands of stateful hosts, providing several petabytes of online database capacity. We are building one of the fastest-growing database platforms in the world. Our MySQL databases run in Vitess. Responsibilities Operate and enhance our large, highly-available database infrastructure, utilizing technologies such as MySQL and Vitess. Develop tools to enable self-service and self-managing capabilities of our database infrastructure so that other teams can operate full-stack while rapidly building new features for our customers. Collaborate with engineering teams on their database storage needs, and advise them throughout the development lifecycle. Write code to capture database performance, and create tools and dashboards to provide actionable insight into that data. Participate in our on-call rotation and collaborate with our operations team to triage and resolve production issues. Support FedRAMP and DoD SRG activities. Qualifications Have a related technical degree. Have been working in data storage, core infrastructure, or distributed system-owning teams with increasing responsibilities for 5+ years. Have professional experience using Go, PHP/Hacklang, Python, Ruby, or Java. Write code that can be easily understood by others with an eye towards clarity and maintainability. Collaborate with other teams to integrate new features of your platform or adopt self-service features. Operated at least one distributed system, at scale and in a team environment. Examples include a relational database like MySQL/Postgres, or systems like Kafka, Cassandra, or ElasticSearch. Deployed server software on Linux, and then operated it at scale. You’ve debugged its problems, and analyzed and optimized its performance. Have experience operating cloud infrastructure, especially AWS. Are familiar with deployment automation/configuration management tools like Chef, Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet. Are a very strong communicator and can explain complex technical concepts to different audiences. About Slack and Infrastructure Slack's Datastores team builds and operates the database platform powering Slack. We run Vitess on MySQL, and our architecture evolves to handle millions more users while remaining highly performant, available, and scalable. Our API and web backend are built on PHP/Hack; our backend services use Java and Go. Additional Information 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. Details about equal opportunity and rights can be found in the posting. Compensation ranges are listed for US roles and vary by location. Come join us and unleash your potential. Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Slack. #J-18808-Ljbffr Slack

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