PMTS Engineer, Service Network, Networking Foundations - Slack

The Service Network team at Slack, a Salesforce company, plays a crucial role in ensuring reliable service delivery to over 14M+ daily active users worldwide. This staff engineering position focuses on designing and operating robust service-to-service networking through advanced service mesh technologies. The team is responsible for architecting and maintaining systems for Ingress load balancing, intelligent traffic management, and custom software load balancers.

The role involves working with critical infrastructure that directly impacts Slack's availability and reliability. The team operates in a fast-paced environment, making significant impacts despite its small size. They prioritize simplicity and reliability in system design while rapidly iterating and collaborating with other engineering teams.

As a Staff Engineer, you'll lead technical initiatives related to service discovery, observability, and security. The position requires deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and service mesh technologies. You'll work with technologies like Istio, Linkerd, Kubernetes, and various cloud platforms while contributing to open-source projects.

The ideal candidate combines technical excellence with strong leadership abilities, capable of mentoring other engineers and driving architectural decisions. The role offers the opportunity to work on large-scale systems that directly impact millions of users while collaborating with various engineering teams across the organization.

Salesforce offers comprehensive benefits and maintains a strong commitment to equality and diversity in the workplace. The company provides competitive compensation based on location, experience, and qualifications, with opportunities for growth and development within a supportive, innovative environment.