software engineer sr., Starbucks Technology - Seattle, WA

Company: Starbucks
Location: Seattle
Posted on: January 17, 2020

Job Description:

At Starbucks, our mission is to inspire and nurture the human spirit one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time. Starbucks Digital Platform CORE! Technologists work to achieve this mission by enhancing, extending, and retooling our platform both incrementally and at times in leaps and bounds to meet the needs of our fellow partners, customers, stores, roasters, and global communities. ASenior Software Engineer Starbucks Technology contributes to Starbucks success by delivering high-quality, reliable, stable, and secure technologies in support of the Starbucks Engineering Platform which enables internal consumers, external partners, and our customers to accelerate onboarding new and delightful experiences for end users. This position is accountable for the design, development, deployment, configuration, monitoring, analysis, maintenance, and technical support of the platform. Additionally, this role will help collaborate across teams to create new containerized cloud-based offerings to support new builds and uplifts of existing solutions. Summary_Of_Key_Responsibilities * Communicates highly complex ideas and concepts to non-technical peers and customers * Ability to establish cross-functional, collaborative relationships with business and technology partners * Deliver, maintain, and monitor high capacity, highly scalable mission- critical pragmatically RESTful API hosting environments in a hybrid cloud and multi-cloud ecosystem (at present this role will primarily focus on the Azure platform) * Provide high-availability operational support and automated solutions across the environment * Ensures application and infrastructure architectural solutions are stable, secure, and compliant with Company standards and practices * Implements and maintains system configurations and baselines to support secure application development software control best practices and standards * Design, build, support, and enhance the platforms upon which developers rely to deliver solutions to the business * Mentors and assists developers within and across teams in their migration to the cloud and on-boarding to new technologies and patterns * Create highly usable API driven resources and interfaces for development and hosting platforms and tools * Engineer, support, and enhance build and release processes as well as strategies used to migrate on-prem systems to new cloud architectures with a focus on containerization and container orchestration technologies (ideally Kubernetes and a big plus if Istio has been involved). * Conducts research and makes recommendations on standards, products, and services * Implements all technologies in accordance with Information Security's guiding principles for highly sensitive data * Implements service monitoring and deep telemetry capabilities across all platforms to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems and provide ongoing success and performance metrics * Upholds company policies, and legal/regulatory requirements, such as PCI * Support the development team and perform activities to resolve developer issues in a timely and accurate fashion * Ability to effectively manage and partner with technology vendors to deliver against business objectives Basic_Qualifications * 4-8 years of professional industry experience with software engineering * 2-3 years of software engineering and design at high volume or large scale * Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience Preferred_Qualifications * 5+ years of experience in system administration, network administration, and systems engineering * 5+ years of experience in one or more popular mid to lower level language like C++, C#, Java, Go, etc. * 3+ years of experience with large-scale distributed systems and client- server architectures * 2+ years of experience in one or more popular high-level scripting or development language like JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Powershell, etc. * 1+ years of experience in infrastructure ownership, system and network administration, and/or systems engineering * Demonstrated knowledge of continuous integration, continuous deployment automation strategies and tools in Windows, Linux, and Cloud environments * Demonstrated ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks across platforms and architectures * A passion for designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems * A passion for the cloud, experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine) with an emphasis on Azure * Demonstrated experience securely moving systems from on-premise or private datacenter environments into popular cloud platforms in a complex and/or sensitive environment or application landscape. * Knowledge and understanding of relevant legal and regulatory requirements, such as PCI, GDPR, SOX, HIPAA, etc. * Demonstrated experience implementing and managing high capacity, redundant, and mission critical environments * Knowledge in databases and comfortable with various databases technologies including RDBMS and NoSQL paradigms * Proficiency in TCP/IP networking, architecture and core technologies (DNS, routing, iptables, etc.) * Experience running and maintaining a 24x7 production environment Years of experience in specific field or utilizing designated skills (minimum needed to be qualified): 5+ years Starbucks and its brands are an equal opportunity employer of all qualified individuals. We are committed to creating a diverse and welcoming workplace that includes partners with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We believe that enables us to better meet our mission and values while serving customers throughout our global communities. People of color, women, LGBTQIA+, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal state and local ordinances. Starbucks Corporation is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ************ or via email **************************************.

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