Software Engineer Ii, Search & Data Infrastructure -slack

Salesforce

San Francisco, California, United States
Base: $117,200 - $223,900 annually; bonus/equity: ...
4+ years software engineering experience
Distributed data processing frameworks like spark or hadoop
Hands-on experience with solr, elasticsearch, or lucene
This role focuses on designing and maintaining the core search infrastructure that powers Slack's information retrieval and generative AI efforts

Job Summary

  • This role focuses on designing and maintaining the core search infrastructure that powers Slack's information retrieval and generative AI efforts.
  • Candidates will partner with product and machine learning engineers to build resilient offline indexing pipelines and optimize Solr clusters for massive scale.
  • The team values a collaborative culture where engineers use AI tools to accelerate development while ensuring high availability and reliability of critical systems.

Matching Summary

This role focuses on designing and maintaining the core search infrastructure that powers Slack's information retrieval and generative AI efforts.

Salary

Base: $117,200 - $223,900 annually; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid parental leave

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 4+ years software engineering experience
  • Distributed data processing frameworks like Spark or Hadoop
  • Hands-on experience with Solr, Elasticsearch, or Lucene
  • Proficiency in Java, Go, PHP, Python, or Ruby
  • Experience with Terraform, Chef, and Kubernetes
  • Building high-availability distributed systems at scale

Nice-to-have

  • AI-first approach to engineering workflows
  • Advanced prompt engineering skills
  • Experience integrating AI tools like Copilot or Cursor
  • Text mining, NLP, or natural language parsing
  • Vector search and embedding-based retrieval
  • Relevance tuning and ranking system experience

Key Requirements

  • 4+ years applicable software engineering experience
  • Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems
  • Proven track record of deploying software migrations in production

Work Rights

Not specified

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