Slack Engineering Engineering Blog

Slack’s Security Engineering team is responsible for protecting Slack’s core infrastructure and services. Our security event ingestion pipeline handles...

Background A Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) is a document that outlines how well a product aligns with accessibility (a11y) standards. Its...

We manage the build pipeline that delivers Quip and Slack Canvas’s backend. A year ago, we were chasing exciting ideas to help engineers ship better code,...

Last year, I wrote a blog post titled Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure, where we explored the evolution of our Chef infrastructure over the years. We talked...

It’s mid 2023 and we’ve identified some opportunities to improve our reliability. Fast forward to January 2025. Customer impact hours are reduced from the peak...

As cyberattacks evolve to unprecedented levels of sophistication and speed, the time gap between breach detection and response has never been more critical....

In the world of DevOps and Developer Experience (DevXP), speed and efficiency can make a big difference on an engineer’s day-to-day tasks. Today, we’ll dive...

Many don’t know that “Slack” is in fact a backronym—it stands for “Searchable Log of all Communication and Knowledge”. And these days, it’s not just a...