Software Engineer, Data Ingestion - Slack

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Data Ingestion Team  this role you will design, build, and maintain scalable and resilient streaming and batch pipelines that ingest data into our Lakehouse.

• Design and develop highly scalable and resilient streaming and batch pipelines for ingesting and processing structured and unstructured datasets.
• Design and implement Slack’s Lakehouse solutions to enable production use cases for customers.
• Improve the reliability and performance of services and pipelines through AI‑assisted and/or agentic solutions and tools.
• Automate and manage the lifecycle of datasets, including schema evolution, metadata management, change and backfill management, deprecation, and migration.
• Act as a technical lead, collaborating with cross‑functional partners and independently driving technical initiatives from start to finish.
• Coach and mentor engineers across the team and the organization.
• Review or provide feedback on technical design proposals from others.

• U.S. citizenship and willingness to undergo a background check for Gov Slack authorization. Visa sponsorship is not available.
• At least 7 years of software / data engineering experience, including building applications with streaming and lakehouse technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, Iceberg, Hudi, Delta, etc.
• Hands‑on experience maintaining batch data pipelines using Spark, Airflow, EMR, S3, or equivalent.
• Proficiency in one or more of the following languages and paradigms: SQL, Python, Java/Scala, Go, or equivalents.
• Experience building robust distributed microservices with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS ECS/EKS, Terraform, Grafana, or equivalent tooling.
• Familiarity with AI‑assisted software development and automation tools such as Claude, Codex, or similar.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to collaborate with cross‑functional partners and explain complex concepts to non‑technical audiences.

Base salary range: $197,300–$313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas, the base salary range is $237,700–$344,700 annually.

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