
software engineer principal, data services (Hybrid-Seattle, WA)
- Seattle, WA
- Permanent
- Full-time
Lead the foundation for enterprise data management – your work will pave the way for future innovation at Starbucks.
Champion seamless API integration across our vast digital ecosystem such as commerce, mobile and in-store order, digital drive through, in-store digital menu board, corporate and supply chain, fostering a truly connected enterprise experience.If you're a leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and gets energized by tackling complex challenges, we want to hear from you!As a principal engineer of the Data Platform and Services engineering team, you’ll collaborate with solution architects and engineering managers, tackle toughest technical problems in the team to lead our data initiatives and drive technical excellence. You’ll lead a group of passionate engineers in building, sustaining, and enhancing critical data platforms used by Starbucks to help drive customer, store, and partner connections and to gain business efficiencies. You’ll play a key role in architecting, designing and developing advanced data platforms, fostering composable design and architecture, and ensuring our solutions are secure, performant, resilient, scalable, flexible, and extensible.The Principal Engineer of Data Platform and Services will be responsible for:
- Communicates highly complex ideas and concepts to non-technical peers and customers
- Ability to establish cross-functional, collaborative relationships with business and technology partners
- Support the development team and perform activities to resolve developer issues in a timely and accurate fashion
- Engineer build and release processes
- Conducts research and makes recommendations on standards, products, and services
- Ensures application and infrastructure architectural solutions are stable, secure, and compliant with Company standards and practices
- Implements all technologies in accordance with Information Security's guiding principles for highly sensitive data
- Provide high-availability operational support and automate solutions across the environment
- Implements deep telemetry capabilities to provide ongoing success and performance metrics
- Implements service monitoring across all platforms to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems
- Upholds company policies, and legal/regulatory requirements, such as PCI
- Education (minimum education level, degree or certification necessary):
- 10-15 years of professional industry experience with software development and platform management
- 5 years of leading teams of six or more software developers
- 3 years of demonstrating technical leadership across multiple platforms
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- 9+ years in Java/Spring Boot, CQRS, event streaming, Kafka, Spark with strong experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration frameworks.
- 7+ years of experience with implementation of highly scalable, resilient, responsive and message driven micro services on large-scale distributed mission critical platform; Demonstrated ability in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
- 5 years of managing systems of all sizes and complexities, including large distributed systems with operational responsibilities.
- Knowledge in databases and comfortable with various databases technologies. Examples include relational database (Oracle) and/or NoSQL data technologies (Mongo, Cassandra, Couchbase) and related toolsets.
- Deep experience with enterprise security protocols, building RESTful services, and best practices around cloud deployments (AWS and Azure preferred).
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills: you can communicate conceptual ideas, engineering rationale, and technical challenges both verbally and visually, to a wide range of audiences.