Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Product Security) - Slack

Slack's Product Security Foundations (PSF) group is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their dedicated software engineering team within Product Security. The role focuses on streamlining secure development processes and making them user-friendly for all engineers. The team is responsible for creating standardized methods, libraries, tools, and services across Slack, including authorization frameworks, core authentication libraries, and safe image processing.

The Product Security Team at Slack is committed to their mission of making people's working lives more secure. They take a systematic approach to security, ensuring low friction and high-impact security across all operations. The team focuses not just on fixing bugs, but on developing effective prevention methods.

As a Staff Engineer, you'll be working with a positive, diverse, and supportive culture where being smart, humble, hardworking, and collaborative are key values. You'll be part of a high-performance team that makes secure choices easy for engineers at Slack. Your work will directly impact millions of users, teams, and businesses using Slack.

The role involves leading technical initiatives, partnering with various stakeholders, and driving security improvements across the platform. You'll be responsible for architecture decisions, implementing security features, and ensuring the platform remains secure while maintaining its user-friendly nature.

Key areas of focus include:

• Leading authentication and authorization architecture
• Developing secure-by-default libraries
• Creating and maintaining security frameworks
• Partnering with engineering teams to implement security best practices
• Driving technical roadmaps and security initiatives

The ideal candidate will combine technical leadership with security expertise, bringing experience in scaling security services and leading cross-functional teams. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on Slack's security infrastructure while working with cutting-edge technologies and practices.