<p><i>To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.</i></p><p></p><p><span>Job Category</span></p>Software Engineering<p></p><p><span>Job Details</span></p><p></p><p><span><b><b>About Salesforce</b></b></span></p><p>Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and were looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforces core values at the heart of it all.</p><p></p><p>Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.</p><p></p><p><b>*IN SCHOOL OR GRADUATED WITHIN THE LAST 12 MONTHS? PLEASE VISIT <a href="https://www.salesforce.com/company/careers/university-recruiting/" target="_blank">FUTURE FORCE</a> FOR OPPORTUNITIES</b><span>*</span><br /> </p><p><b>About Slack</b></p><p><br /><span>Slack is your Digital HQ – a place where work flows between your people, systems, partners, and customers. From Fortune 100 companies to corner markets, millions of people around the world use Slack to connect their teams, unify their systems, and drive their business forward.</span><br /><br /><span>Slack breaks down communication silos inside and beyond your organization by bringing teams and tools together around common goals, projects and processes in channels and in Slack Connect. It removes the limits of physical walls, giving people the flexibility to do their best work where, when and how they prefer with features like huddles and clips. And it empowers everyone to automate common tasks with apps and workflows. In this digital-first era, Slack’s mission is to make people’s work lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. </span><br /><span>A taste of our scale and reach:</span></p><ul><li><p><span>Slack delivers 300k+ messages per second</span></p></li><li><p><span>77% of the fortune 100 use Slack</span></p></li><li><p><span>150+ countries have daily active users in Slack </span></p></li><li><p><span>To date, 1.79 trillion messages have been sent on Slack </span></p></li><li><p><span>2.65 billion actions are taken in Slack each day</span></p></li><li><p><span>Slack has 200k+ paid customers</span></p></li><li><p><span>Users are spending a combined 243 million minutes per week in Huddles</span></p></li></ul><p><br /><span><b>About the Teams</b></span></p><p><span>We are looking for Backend Engineers to build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems as we rapidly scale our product and organization. We build our app using reliable tools that our team knows and trusts, including PHP/Hack, Java, MySQL, and Linux. Expertise in these areas is a huge plus, but having familiarity with other common web languages (such as Python or Ruby) and other relational databases are fine substitutes. We’re a collaborative team who genuinely enjoys working together with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, frontend, iOS, Android, automation, and quality engineers to make Slack a better product. We are looking for engineers that understand that simplicity and reliability are aspects of a system to be carefully calculated with every decision made.</span><br /><br /><b>We are specifically looking for Staff and SWE II level Backend engineers to join our Triage XP, Slack Actions and Slackforce Adoption teams!</b></p><p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p><b>The Slack Actions team is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer!</b><span> </span>The Actions team develops and maintains Slacks automation infrastructure, including workflow triggers, action execution, and enterprise integrations with Salesforce and third-party systems. Our backend projects support millions of workflow executions while meeting strict compliance, security, and performance requirements. As a Staff Backend Engineer, youll lead technical initiatives across distributed systems, mentor engineers, and drive architectural decisions that enable seamless automation experiences for teams worldwide.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p></p><p><span><b>The Slackforce Adoption team is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer. </b>We are in search of a talented engineer who excels at building robust, scalable systems for seamless user experiences. Youll lead the integration of Slack and Salesforce, bringing Salesforce records and functionality directly into Slack.</span></p><p></p><p><span><b>The Triage XP team is looking for a Software Engineer II! </b>Under the Messaging umbrella, the Triage XP team is focused on making team communication and collaboration more valuable and effective, ensuring Slack has a best-in-class user experience across its core features. Triage XP owns critical parts of Slacks core features including the Activity tab, DMs, Badging, Mentions, and more. Our top priority is giving users a single place to catch up on what matters with powerful triage tools that are delightfully ergonomic. We are looking for engineers who want to help make Slack less noisy and improve the day to day experience for tens of millions active Slack users.</span></p><p><br /><b><span>What you will be doing:</span></b></p><ul><li><p><span>Youll brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers on your team to conceptualize and build new features for our large (and growing!) user base.</span></p></li><li><p><span>You’ll produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant impact on the business.</span></p></li><li><p><span>You’ll actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Youll assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Youll mentor other engineers and deeply review code.</span></p></li><li><p><span>You’ll improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><b><span>What you should have: </span></b></p><ul><li><p><span>You’ve been building web applications professionally for 4+ years - 8+ years for Staff level candidates. </span></p></li><li><p><span>You have experience with functional or imperative programming languages — e.g., PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, C, or Java.</span></p></li><li><p><span>You can contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team.</span></p></li><li><p><span>You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.</span></p></li><li><p><span>You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.</span></p></li><li><p><span>You possess solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span>Unleash Your Potential</span></p><p><span>When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and<span> </span></span><i>be your best</i><span>, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can<span> </span></span><i>do your best</i><span>. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.</span></p><p></p><p><span>Accommodations</span></p><p><span>If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this </span><a href="https://careers.mail.salesforce.com/accommodations-request-form" target="_blank">Accommodations Request Form</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p><span>Posting Statement</span></p><p><span><span>Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. </span></span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.eeoc.gov/know-your-rights-workplace-discrimination-illegal">Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal.</a><span><span> Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p>In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.  Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.<p></p><p></p><h3></h3><h3></h3><h3></h3><h3></h3>For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $157,600 to $306,600.<h3></h3><h3></h3><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,000 to $334,600.<h3></h3><h3></h3><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>