Senior Staff Software Engineer, SecOps - Slack

Slack

Seattle, WA

Full Time

Senior

231k-384k

3 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. We empower you to be a Trailblazer, driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. Our security team supports Slack's mission to make people's working lives more secure by protecting infrastructure, operations, and customer data. Slack Security Engineering is hiring a curious Senior Staff level blue team software engineer to drive threat detection, logging, and remediation efforts, working on developing features, threat detection, and scalable infrastructure to handle millions of events per second.

Key Responsibilities

Identify and develop new features and a roadmap to augment existing tools to protect Slack's production infrastructure and improve security, productivity, and user experience.
Detect threats and help Slack be more secure.
Help to develop eBPF tooling and author detections therein.
Creatively scale and operate the infrastructure and tools that handle millions of events per second.
Respond in our on-call rotation to fix services and investigate potential threats.

Requirements

Curiosity and creativity, with a desire to understand why something happened and push for deeper understanding.
A desire to empower coworkers and approach engineering problems as an art form, ensuring solutions are easy to maintain and high quality.
Motivation to solve problems thoroughly, with a focus on avoiding quick fixes and ensuring on-call issues are addressed effectively.
Eagerness to collaborate across the company and work with the broader engineering team.
Broad exposure to various security disciplines and understanding of core security concepts such as MFA, ZeroTrust, and managing secrets or tokens.

Nice to Have

AWS proficiency, with the ability to learn other cloud providers if needed.
Experience with Elasticsearch / Kibana and accessing metrics.
Experience with Google Chronicle/SecOps SIEM tools.

Qualifications

Experience with development, operations, and security tools such as eBPF.
Experience with threat detection, threat intel, and possibly APT tradecraft.
Proficiency in programming languages like Go and Python.
Experience scaling infrastructure and working with large-scale event handling.

Benefits & Perks

Salesforce offers a variety of benefits including time off programs, medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
Compensation is determined by location, job level, knowledge, skills, and experience, with specific salary ranges provided for Washington and California-based roles.

Working at Slack

Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture that values curiosity, inventiveness, continuous improvement, humility, hard work, and collaboration. The team emphasizes inclusive communication, regular collaboration, and a shared commitment to security and innovation.

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