Staff Software Engineer
Twilio
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This role pays more than 77% of similar roles. Most pay $192,510–$254,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $256k versus about $224k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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Salesforce is the world''s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, offering cloud-based software for sales, service, marketing, analytics, and application development. Industry: Enterprise Software & Cloud Computing
Salesforce currently has 150 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $148,500–$260,100 across 114 roles with salary data.
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Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Data Services - Slack joins a small team building critical infrastructure to ensure Slack remains performant, reliable, and scalable for large customers. This role focuses on backend services rather than user-facing features, specifically managing edge caches for latency-critical queries, enterprise key management, data residency, and privacy-preserving image proxying. The candidate will build and operate high-scale distributed systems that process millions of events per second to solve complex infrastructure challenges like international data compliance and system reliability. The technical environment utilizes Go, Java, and PHP/Hack, with additional technologies including AWS, Docker containers, and Kubernetes. Ideal candidates possess over ten years of experience in large-scale systems, demonstrating expertise in unit testing, code review, design documentation, and troubleshooting within highly regulated environments involving FEDRAMP or NIST frameworks to maintain high availability for global users.
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