Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure - Slack
Remote · United States or Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Job Summary
Lead software projects end-to-end — from scoping and architecture through delivery and long-term ownership; architect and build a next-generation internal platform for Slack’s cloud infrastructure; deliver cutting-edge solutions leveraging containerization and broad AWS services; author and extend Terraform modules powering infrastructure-as-code; design a system to deploy, manage, and scale applications; partner with development teams to optimize performance and cloud efficiency; mentor junior engineers; contribute to on-call rotations and incident resolution; drive cost reductions and build observability tooling; require strong AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python/Go/PHP skills and U.S. citizenship or green card.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent training/experience
- U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency (Green Card holder) required for this role
- Strong hands-on AWS experience (including EKS, EC2, IAM, S3, Lambda)
- Experience deploying cloud applications and managing infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and/or CloudFormation
- Experience with Kubernetes (EKS or Bare Metal)
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or PHP
- Experience provisioning, configuring, and maintaining AWS environments; scripting and automation
- Strong debugging across infrastructure, applications, and distributed systems
- Track record of building scalable software systems
- Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) and SRE practices
- Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent; hands-on software development background
- Strong mentoring, design docs, code reviews, and on-call experience
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