Staff Software Engineer, Slack Desktop Client

Staff Software Engineer — Desktop Team Slack is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Desktop team within the Architecture & System organization. This role is dedicated to building the Desktop Framework that underpins the Slack desktop client across all platforms. What you will be doing Strategic Leadership: Lead cross‑functional initiatives across Electron and Slack to increase developer productivity, OS level stability, performance, or security alongside desktop and frontend stakeholders. Technical Standards: Contribute to key architectural decisions to adapt our existing frontend and desktop infrastructure to support new product features. Navigating Ambiguity: Thrive in ambiguity, identifying and offering solutions to problems such as framework migrations or rendering bottlenecks that are not yet evident to leaders. System Health: Maintain and improve the core systems that power the Slack desktop client and Electron framework, including Slack and Electron‑based infrastructure and tooling. Mentorship & Culture: Build a safe space for learning and serve as a skilled, trusted mentor to engineers across the organization, coaching new leaders rather than just individual contributors. Cross‑Functional Execution: 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. What you should have 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. Development at Scale: Experience working in a large‑scale, shared codebase with hundreds of contributors, establishing patterns that allow other teams to contribute effectively. Experience writing understandable, testable code with an eye toward maintainability and scalability. Strategic Architecture: Expertise in building complex systems and tooling, leading technical design that guides best decisions across the team. Business Alignment: Exceptional communication skills to tie technical infrastructure to company goals such as performance, reliability, and developer velocity. Routinely facilitate dialogue between junior and senior members to surface blockers. Technical Breadth: Experience with performance profiling and debugging tools for web‑based desktop applications. Familiarity with desktop development, and the ability to understand and explain technical trade‑offs and complexities. Self‑Awareness: Commitment to offering regular, constructive feedback and receiving it gracefully. Eagerness to learn and excitement to teach. Understanding that the perfect solution is informed by the people who will build it, not just technical merits. Empathy is a feature. Bonus Points Experience contributing to the engineering reputation externally (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. Accommodations If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request through the accommodations request form. Posting Statement Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non‑discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. We believe in equality for all and creating an inclusive, discrimination‑free workplace. All employees and applicants are evaluated on 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 protected classifications. This policy applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, performance assessment, discipline, termination, and all other aspects of employment. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions are fair and based on merit. Compensation and benefits are determined by location, job level, knowledge, skills, and experience, and some roles may qualify for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. #J-18808-Ljbffr 100 Salesforce, Inc.