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griddable.io · 13 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure - Slack

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

7+ years exp

Griddable.io is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Data Infrastructure team within Slack. The role focuses on building secure and reliable data infrastructure that supports analytics and machine learning, ensuring performance and uptime for core data services.

AnalyticsBig DataCloud Data ServicesData IntegrationInformation TechnologySaaSSoftware

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate reliable and scalable data infrastructure powering Slack’s analytics, ML, and data-driven decision-making

Serve as DRI for 1–2 core data services (e.g., EMR, StarRocks, Pinot, Hive Metastore, Airflow, Temporal, Trino), ensuring uptime, reliability, and performance

Drive improvements in security, cost efficiency, and developer experience across our data infrastructure

Build automation and self-service tools that empower data teams to easily adopt and manage data workflows

Collaborate closely with data engineering, platform, and security teams to design scalable, well-governed solutions

Contribute to observability, monitoring, and alerting via Grafana and related tooling

Partner with other senior engineers to define best practices, technical standards, and support models for Slack’s data ecosystem

Mentor and coach other engineers, modeling ownership, collaboration, and operational excellence

Qualification

Data infrastructure designDistributed systemsBig data technologiesPythonGolangBashSQLCI/CDInfrastructure reliabilityBachelor’s degreeCommunicationCollaborationOwnershipMentoring

Required

7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, including time spent supporting data-intensive systems or data platforms

Proven experience in building, deploying, and operating distributed infrastructure at scale

Strong technical background with big data and infrastructure technologies — such as EMR, Airflow, Pinot, StarRocks, Hive Metastore, Kubernetes, or equivalent systems

Proficiency in Python, Golang, Bash, and SQL

Familiarity with CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Vault, Terraform, Chef, and Grafana

Deep understanding of infrastructure reliability, observability, and cost efficiency principles

Hands-on experience supporting data pipelines or data engineering workflows is a strong plus

Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams

A strong sense of ownership and a drive to deliver high-impact, autonomous results

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Company

griddable.io

Griddable.io is a San Jose, CA based SaaS startup that closed Series A funding in 2017 from August Capital, Artiman Ventures, and Carsten Thoma, founding CEO of Hybris (acquired by SAP).

Founded in 2016

San Jose, California, USA

11-50 employees