# Senior Staff Engineer

**Company**: Salesforce
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $218,400 - $365,200 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a trailblazing engineering leader who is passionate about empowering developers with AI tools that will innovate the developer experience at Slack.

The Developer Experience (DevXP) AI team equips the entire engineering organization with Agentic SDLC solutions that reach all aspects of the development lifecycle.

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will lead projects and architectural efforts that impact the entire Product, Design, and Engineering (PDE) organization.

**Responsibilities:**

- Set and Drive the Technical Vision: Define the long-term technical roadmap for Agentic SDLC.

- Architect Globally Optimal Solutions: Lead detailed, cross-boundary conversations about the architecture and design of multiple systems and codebases.

- Lead Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with a wide range of cross-functional peers to bring strategic clarity to both the engineering organization and Slack as a whole.

- Pioneer and Prototype: Build hands-on prototypes to prove out long-term technical and product strategies.

- Drive Exceptional Ownership: Demonstrate a “can-do” demeanor where nothing is outside your responsibilities.

**Requirements:**

- 10–15+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of driving technical impact at the staff, senior staff, or principal level.

- Deep expertise in AI development tools and frameworks (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, LangChain, LangGraph).

- Advanced systems design and architecture skills, with the ability to navigate multiple complex codebases.

- Expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and services.

- Deep familiarity with developer productivity metrics tracking, evaluation, and large-scale systemic improvement.

- Exceptional cross-functional leadership and communication skills.

**Benefits:**

- Time off programs

- Medical, dental, vision

- Mental health support

- Paid parental leave

- Life and disability insurance

- 401(k)

- Employee stock purchasing program

## Skills

### Required
- AI development tools
- AWS cloud infrastructure
- systems design
- architecture
- developer productivity metrics

### Nice to have
- Slack
- Platform engineering
- internal developer tooling teams

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