Software Engineer II - Slack Developer Experience AI

Job summary

The engineer will build and maintain AI-powered developer tools to improve the development lifecycle at Slack. Responsibilities include managing AI tooling distribution, monitoring, evaluation, and experimenting with internal AI code review agents.

Job details

Description We are looking for people who are passionate about empowering developers with AI tools that will innovate the developer experience at Slack! The Developer Experience(DevXP) AI team enables the engineering organization with AI powered solutions that reach all aspects of the development lifecycle. We own AI tooling: distribution, monitoring, evangelism, evaluation, and cost management. We also build and experiment with internal tooling like AI code review agents for use across Slack. As a DevXP engineer, you like building developer workflow tools and work toward making overall development better. You’re a full-stack generalist who is comfortable working across different technology stacks. You demonstrate exceptional ownership of not only the area of your team, but across Slack’s entire codebase. You have a “can do” demeanor and nothing is beneath you or outside your responsibilities because you do what it takes to deliver the highest quality code and the most impactful features. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things, adeptly navigate ambiguity, and treat failure as an opportunity for learning. What You Should Have 3+ years of experience building and maintaining complex software Experience using AI development tools and frameworks like Claude Code, Cursor, LangChain, LangGraph, etc.. Expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and services Deep familiarity with the developer productivity metrics tracking and improvement Track record of championing AI powered development practices at an organizational level. Bonus Points Experience using Slack and a keen interest in making it better Specific experience working within the Developer Experience space or a Platform team.

What you’ll do

The engineer will build and maintain AI-powered developer tools to improve the development lifecycle at Slack. Responsibilities include managing AI tooling distribution, monitoring, evaluation, and experimenting with internal AI code review agents.

Requirements

Candidates must have 3+ years of experience in complex software development and expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure. Proficiency with AI development frameworks and a track record of championing AI-powered practices are required.

Listed skills

• Amazon Web Services · Preferred
• System monitoring · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Software Engineering
• AI Development Tools
• Claude Code
• Cursor
• LangChain
• LangGraph
• AWS
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Developer Productivity Metrics
• Full-stack Development
• AI Code Review
• Developer Workflow Tools
• System Monitoring
• Cost Management
• Technical Evangelism

Job areas

• Software
• Technology
• Engineering