Description
The Upgrades team is looking for a Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for our feature access and usage infrastructure. In this role, you will drive the architecture, design, and evolution of critical systems that power feature management across Slack's platform.
About the Upgrades Team
The Upgrades team at Slack is responsible for driving upgrades and building/maintaining the infrastructure to support areas surrounding this goal. This includes the our promotion and trial systems, our feature access management and usage infrastructure, and our notification system.
What You'll Do:
- Provide Technical Vision & Strategy: Define and communicate the long-term technical roadmap for our feature management systems, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals
- Lead Architecture & Design: Drive architectural decisions for highly scalable, reliable systems that handle feature management at enterprise scale
- Mentor & Guide: Provide technical mentorship and guidance to team members, helping elevate engineering practices and grow the team's capabilities
- Drive Technical Excellence: Drive code reviews, establish best practices, and ensure high-quality standards across the codebase
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with product managers, other engineering teams, and stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver impactful solutions
- Solve Complex Problems: Tackle challenging technical problems related to scalability, performance, reliability, and data consistency in distributed systems
- Influence & Leadership: Drive technical discussions and decisions, bringing clarity to complex problems and building consensus across teams
Requirements:
- 10+ years of professional experience building and shipping web applications
- Strong proficiency in backend development languages (Java, Python, Go, or similar)
- Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, data storage solutions, and caching strategies
- Knowledge of API design, microservices architecture, and event-driven systems
- Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and operational excellence practices
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