Primary Job Title Principal Software Engineer Primary Organization Slack
Location Sunnyvale, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Mark McBride is the Principal Software Engineer at Slack. Mark McBride is a former Founder and CEO of Turbine Labs, building products that help engineers ship features more quickly and safely. Previously, Mark was services engineer lead at Nest Labs and Google, where he was responsible for the development of Nest’s server infrastructure that makes
it possible for Nest customers to connect with their homes from wherever they are, and as an early developer on Twitter’s streaming API, delivering thousands of messages per second in real time to millions of users. During his time at Twitter, Mark managed developer productivity and led the web delivery, developer tools, and infrastructure test teams; he also worked with a variety of deploy pipelines and led development of some of Twitter’s early service migrations, which grew into a suite of tools used to migrate of millions of requests per second from legacy services to modern replacements.
