Airbnb Senior Systems Engineer Slack 

United States 

166201528

A Typical Day:

• Designing, developing, and optimizing Slack integrations, workflows, and apps to enhance internal collaboration efficiency and user experience.
• Developing custom scripts or leveraging third-party solutions to move data between collaboration tools such as Slack, Asana, Airtable, Jira Cloud, and Salesforce.
• Reviewing and optimizing existing scripts and integrations for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborating closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to gather requirements, troubleshoot issues, and deliver clear documentation on processes and outcomes.
• Conducting regular assessments to ensure collaboration tools and integrations comply with information security and governance best practices.
• Leading complex migrations from on-premise data center tools to modern cloud solutions.
• Providing mentorship and technical guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
• Staying current with the latest industry trends, especially related to Slack, cloud technologies, and security standards.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years as an in-house or consulting Engineer in an enterprise cloud environment.
• 5+ years as an engineer with significant experience migrating on-premise tools to cloud platforms, including data transfers, pipeline creation, automation scripts, and scheduling tasks (cron jobs).
• Deep expertise and a minimum of 3+ years of hands-on experience managing, administering, and optimizing Slack, including building integrations, bots, workflows, and apps.
• Hands-on coding, automation, and scripting experience with JSON, REST APIs, Java, Groovy, Python, and similar technologies; familiarity with integration platforms such as Mulesoft or Tray.io is a plus.
• Demonstrated success in designing and implementing integrations across a cloud-based collaboration tech ecosystem that includes Slack, Atlassian Jira, Asana, Airtable, Moveworks, Miro, Zoom, and other SaaS applications.
• Extensive hands-on experience migrating enterprise applications from on-premise environments to cloud-based platforms; bonus points for direct experience architecting these migrations.
• An ability to rapidly adapt to new technologies and tools.
• Knowledge and understanding of AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, Load Balancers, ECR, EKS, etc.).
• Proven capability to lead and execute projects from inception through to successful delivery.
• Solid understanding of system architecture, data modeling, and integration frameworks.
• Demonstrated knowledge of security and governance frameworks and best practices to ensure secure and compliant cloud solutions.
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, capable of diagnosing complex technical issues and developing effective solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, adept at articulating complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to participate in on-call rotations across our suite of tools.

Offices: United States