Senior Staff Software Engineer, Security - Slack

Join Slack's Security Engineering team as a Senior Staff Software Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in protecting our infrastructure, operations, and customer data. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of security and software engineering, focusing on threat detection and response.

The role is part of a dozen-person team of multidisciplinary engineers who specialize in SecDevOps, working with technologies like Go, Python, and Elasticsearch. You'll be contributing to a sophisticated security program that handles millions of events per second, with the opportunity to implement machine learning models for anomaly detection and explore the application of LLMs for advanced alerting capabilities.

As a member of our US-based, distributed team, you'll collaborate closely with colleagues across multiple locations, including Melbourne and Auckland. The position offers a blend of hands-on technical work and strategic thinking, requiring both deep security expertise and strong software engineering capabilities. You'll be involved in developing eBPF tooling, scaling infrastructure, and implementing creative solutions to complex security challenges.

The ideal candidate brings a unique combination of curiosity, creativity, and technical expertise, with experience in threat detection, data science, and machine learning. You'll work in an environment that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning, with the freedom to define workstreams and approach engineering problems as an art form.

Slack offers a positive, diverse, and supportive culture, emphasizing smart, humble, and hardworking attributes. The role provides competitive compensation, with salaries ranging from $251,900 to $384,100 in San Francisco, reflecting the senior level and technical expertise required. You'll be part of a company that's serious about security while maintaining a collaborative and inclusive atmosphere.

This is an excellent opportunity for security-focused engineers who want to make a significant impact on a platform used by millions, working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to the security of one of the world's leading communication platforms.