Slack enables people around the world to communicate and collaborate together, from the world's largest public companies to the smallest of startups. We take performance and reliability very seriously. A taste of our scale:

• During the week, our users spend over a billion minutes a day active in our product.

• At peak usage, a million messages a minute passed through Slack.

• Every day we see over 15 million simultaneously connected users

• For millions of people, Slack is their primary communication tool for work and more and they expect it to be exceptionally reliable and fast year-round.

Our Compute team provides a robust platform for service owners to build and deploy their applications. We manage the core infrastructure, ensuring a reliable and scalable environment for development teams. Our work involves maintaining and evolving our Kubernetes and EC2 infrastructure, and we're currently exploring multi-cloud strategies, including GCP. We are a small, collaborative team that values ownership, automation, and continuous improvement.

• Design, build, and maintain our core compute infrastructure, primarily using Kubernetes and EC2.

• Work on our infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform to manage and provision resources.

• Automate configuration management with Chef to ensure consistency across our fleet.

• Manage our internal software packages using Aptly.

• Collaborate with service owners to provide support and guidance on best practices for using our platform.

• Participate in on-call rotations to support our production environment and respond to incidents.

• Help us research and implement new technologies as we expand into a multi-cloud environment, including exploring multi-architecture support for our containerized workloads.

• Proven experience managing production-grade infrastructure with Kubernetes and EC2.

• Experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.

• Proficiency in configuration management tools like Chef (or similar, such as Puppet or Ansible).

• Experience with package management, ideally with Aptly.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms beyond AWS, particularly GCP, is a plus.

• Strong Scripting skills in a language like Python, Bash, or Go.

• Solid understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, etc.) and security best practices.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and a collaborative attitude.