Senior Staff Software Engineer, SecOps - Slack

Slack

Raleigh, NC

Full Time

Senior

2 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 directly on the Slack Security Engineering team with a focus on threat detection, anomaly detection, and using AI/ML models.

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 the 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, with pride in the quality of work.
Motivation to solve problems thoroughly rather than patching quick fixes, and a commitment to not burden the on-call team.
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.
Experience or familiarity with threat detection, threat intel, and APT tradecraft.
Experience with programming languages such as Go and Python, and scaling Elasticsearch.
Experience with modern AI tooling and interest in applying ML/LLMs for security alerting and detection.

Nice to Have

AWS proficiency, with the ability to learn other cloud providers.
Experience with Elasticsearch / Kibana for metrics and information access.
Experience with Google Chronicle/SecOps SIEM systems.

Qualifications

No specific formal educational qualifications are explicitly mentioned, but experience in security disciplines and programming is implied.

Benefits & Perks

Time off programs, medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance.
401(k) plan and employee stock purchasing program.
Additional details available at https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

Working at Slack

Salesforce has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture that values curiosity, inventiveness, continuous improvement, humility, hard work, and collaboration. They emphasize an inclusive workplace free from discrimination and promote merit-based assessments and opportunities.

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