Sr. Engineering Manager, Core Services - Slack

What you'll do

• Own the portfolio roadmap and lead the Flannel-to-Loom edge-cache migration while maintaining service reliability.
• Oversee delivery, Tier 0 on-call operations, incident response, and operational improvements.
• Manage and develop the team, cross-functional partnerships, service costs, capacity, and adoption of AI development tools.

What they ask for

• 5+ years leading engineering teams building and operating high-scale, high-availability backend infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Senior+ backend engineering experience and strong fundamentals in architecture, caching, distributed systems, observability, reliability, and system design.
• Experience managing Tier 0/Tier 1 services, on-call rotations, incident response, and operational improvements.
• Experience with realtime messaging or event-driven systems at scale, multi-quarter migrations, cross-functional stakeholders, and managing engineers across multiple time zones.

Nice to have

• Go and/or Java at scale; AWS, including multi-region architectures; Kubernetes and container-based deployments.
• Experience with regulated environments, FedRAMP/NIST, Enterprise Key Management, data residency, edge caching/CDN/API gateways, or service migrations.

Pay

$172,500 - $260,100 annually (base salary); $207,800 - $285,800 annually (base salary)

Tools

Go, Java, PHP/Hack, AWS, Kubernetes, Flannel, Loom

AI focus

Drive adoption of AI development tooling to improve team impact while maintaining engineering rigor and quality; Salesforce also uses AI tools to help assess candidates’ resumes and qualifications.