Staff Software Engineer, Electron & Browser Infrastructure - Slack Desktop

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Desktop team, focusing on building the architectural foundation of the Slack desktop client and ensuring the success of the Electron ecosystem. The role requires deep expertise in Chromium and emphasizes collaboration and mentorship within a cross-functional team.

Responsibilities:

• You will lead cross functional initiatives across Electron and at Slack associated with increasing developer productivity, OS level stability, performance, or security alongside desktop and frontend stakeholders
• You will be contributing to key architectural decisions to adapt our existing frontend and desktop infrastructure to support new product features
• You will thrive in ambiguity, often identifying and offering solutions to problems, like framework migrations or rendering bottlenecks, that are not yet evident to the leaders who presented them
• You will maintain and improve the core systems that power the Slack desktop client and Electron framework, including Slack and Electron-based infrastructure and tooling
• You will build a safe space for learning and serve as a skilled and trusted mentor to engineers across the organization, developing the ability to coach new leaders rather than just individual contributors
• You will collaborate with teammates across engineering to identify, define, and solve strategically important initiatives, acting as a leader in communication to de-escalate conflicts and drive consensus

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience writing client-side code (React + Typescript) for modern web applications at scale
• Deep Chromium experience, or experience contributing to large scale open source projects
• Experience working in a large-scale, shared codebase with hundreds of contributors, where you have successfully established patterns that allow other teams to contribute effectively without friction
• Experience writing understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and scalability
• Expertise in building complex systems and tooling, with the ability to lead technical design that guides the best decisions across the team
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to tie technical infrastructure your work succinctly to company goals like performance, reliability and developer velocity
• Experience working with performance profiling and debugging tools for web based desktop applications
• Familiarity with desktop development, along with the ability to understand and explain technical trade-offs and complexities
• A commitment to proactively offering regular, constructive feedback and gracefully receiving it to improve yourself and the team culture
• Eagerness to learn, but similar excitement to teach
• Understanding that the perfect solution is informed by the people who will be building on your work, rather than being purely dependent on technical merits
• Experience contributing to the engineering reputation externally (e.g., blog posts, speaking at conferences, open source contributions)
• Experience developing on Windows and maintaining build infrastructure for Windows desktop applications
• Experience in fast-paced and dynamic product development environments