Senior Staff Software Engineer, SecOps - Slack

Slack

Atlanta, GA

Full Time

Senior

about 1 month 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 the mission of making people's working lives more secure by protecting infrastructure, operations, and customer data through a systemic security approach. Slack Security Engineering is hiring a curious Senior Staff level blue team software engineer to drive threat detection, logging, and remediation efforts, working on tools and features to enhance security and threat detection capabilities.

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, ensuring solutions are easy to maintain and high quality.
Motivation to solve problems thoroughly rather than patching quick fixes, with a focus on reducing on-call burdens.
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 secure management of secrets or tokens.
Experience with threat detection, security tooling, and possibly with APT tradecraft and threat intel.
Experience with programming languages such as Go and Python, and scaling tools like Elasticsearch.
Experience or familiarity with modern AI tooling and threat detection platforms like Cursor, Google Chronicle/SecOps, or similar.

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 platforms.

Qualifications

No specific formal qualifications are explicitly listed; experience with security engineering, threat detection, and relevant tools 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. They value curiosity, inventiveness, continuous improvement, humility, hard work, and collaboration. The company emphasizes an inclusive workplace free from discrimination, with a focus on merit, competence, and qualifications.

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