IoT engineer II - ST, Seattle, WA
About The Position
The IoT Engineer II designs, develops, tests, deploys, and supports software that connects retail devices and edge systems to secure, scalable cloud services. The role spans device integrations, telemetry and messaging, backend APIs, operational tooling, and web experiences for engineering and support teams. The engineer independently delivers well-defined features, contributes to solution design, and improves the reliability and supportability of connected-device platforms. This position develops IoT applications and services, Python-based APIs and microservices, event-driven integrations, and React dashboards. It also involves deploying and operating containerized services in Kubernetes and public cloud environments, applying secure engineering practices, building observability, and participating in incident response and continuous improvement. The engineer collaborates with product, store operations, cybersecurity, networking, data engineering, support, and vendor teams. The position is onsite four days a week.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 2 years of professional experience in application development, software engineering, platform engineering, IoT, edge computing, or a related role.
- Professional experience developing production software with Python and at least one of C, C++, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
- Experience with RESTful APIs, automated testing, source control, pull requests, code review, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience deploying or supporting applications in Azure, AWS, or another public cloud environment.
- Working knowledge of Linux, networking fundamentals, and troubleshooting across application, device, and infrastructure layers.
- Experience working in an Agile engineering team and using tools such as GitHub, Jira, and Confluence.
- Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and collaborate across engineering and business functions.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with connected-device platforms, device telemetry, fleet management, provisioning, remote configuration, or lifecycle management.
- Experience with MQTT, Kafka, AMQP, or other event-driven and device-messaging technologies.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native operational practices.
- Experience building React applications, support dashboards, or administrative interfaces.
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and practical SQL development.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, or Azure Monitor.
- Experience supporting retail technology, operational technology, connected appliances, sensors, digital displays, or other distributed hardware environments.
- Knowledge of secure device identity, certificate-based authentication, secrets rotation, vulnerability management, and software supply-chain controls.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain IoT applications and services using Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript, with unit, integration, and automated test coverage.
- Build software for Linux-based edge devices that communicate with sensors, controllers, peripherals, gateways, and connected retail equipment.
- Develop Python-based APIs and microservices for device onboarding, configuration, telemetry ingestion, command and control, and operational workflows.
- Implement event-driven integrations using MQTT, Kafka, or comparable messaging technologies, with suitable retry, ordering, durability, and failure-handling patterns.
- Create React dashboards and administrative tools for fleet visibility, device health monitoring, diagnostics, and support workflows.
- Deploy and operate containerized services using Kubernetes and public cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
- Apply secure engineering practices, including authentication, authorization, certificate or token management, secrets handling, dependency management, and protection of device-to-cloud communications.
- Build observability using structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and actionable alerts; participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- Contribute to requirements analysis, technical design, prototypes, code reviews, release readiness, documentation, and continuous improvement of engineering standards.
- Partner with product, store operations, cybersecurity, networking, data engineering, support, and vendor teams to deliver reliable connected solutions.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Basic and supplemental life insurance and other voluntary insurance benefits.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Paid parental leave and family expansion reimbursement.
- Paid vacation from date of hire and sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked.
- Eight paid holidays and two personal days per year.
- Eligible partners may participate in a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
- Discounted company stock program (S.I.P.) and Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock).
- Incentivized emergency savings and financial well-being tools.
- 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor's degree through Arizona State University's online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan.
- Student loan management resources and access to other educational opportunities.
- Backup care and DACA reimbursement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
