Senior Software Engineer

The Coca-Cola Company • Atlanta, GA

8d • $171,000 - $198,000

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer is an individual contributor accountable for the technical execution, architectural integrity, and delivery outcomes of a product team operating under the product model. The role partners as an equal with Product Management and Product Design to discover, deliver, and scale solutions that achieve measurable business outcomes. It owns how products are built across product teams, establishing sustainable engineering practices while maintaining quality, security, reliability, and scalability.

The role aligns product architecture with enterprise architecture, assesses the upstream and downstream impacts of technical decisions, and follows global standards wherever possible. When product architecture must deviate from existing standards, the Senior Engineer intentionally influences enterprise practices. The role also ensures cybersecurity practices and applicable industry regulations, including SOX compliance, are observed, with risks surfaced early and managed transparently.

The Senior Engineer translates product strategy and outcome-based OKRs into technical plans; sets technical direction; leads continuous delivery; and makes pragmatic tradeoffs among speed, quality, cost, and technical debt. The role participates in product discovery and solution shaping, mentors engineers, establishes engineering standards, and aligns product decisions with platform, architecture, and security leaders. It has decision rights over technical design and implementation, engineering prioritization within product objectives, build-versus-buy recommendations, and hiring and performance input for engineering roles on the team.

The position calls for full-stack and Salesforce platform expertise, including modern front-end frameworks, API-driven back ends, cloud infrastructure, and Salesforce ecosystems. It also calls for experience creating technology-led strategies for Customer and Commercial functions in an FMCG environment, and taking experimentation from hypothesis and prototype through production deployment. Success is assessed through product and customer outcomes, delivery performance, system reliability and efficiency, team engagement and growth, and reduction of critical technical debt.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience in the Product Operating Model.
• Prefer 6+ years of experience leading a product technology team.
• Proven success leading product teams in continuous discovery and delivery.
• Strong system design and architecture expertise in modern cloud-native environments.
• Deep understanding of DevOps, SRE, and secure-by-design principles.
• Demonstrated ability to coach senior engineers and scale teams.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in full-stack engineering and Salesforce platform development, including modern front-end frameworks, API-driven back ends, cloud infrastructure, and Salesforce ecosystems (Sales, Service, Experience, and custom platform extensions).
• Experience creating and executing innovative technology-led strategies for Customer and Commercial functions in an FMCG environment, including sales, marketing, customer service, and route-to-market operations.
• Extensive experience leading technology experimentation from hypothesis and rapid prototyping through production deployment.
• Proven track record of defining measurable business outcomes and direct accountability for achieving them through technology and product delivery.
• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company’s sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• Experience leading a product technology team for 6+ years.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end engineering outcomes for the product, including quality, reliability, performance, scalability, and time-to-value.
• Translate product strategy and outcome-based OKRs into executable technical plans.
• Lead continuous delivery, aiming for high deployment frequency, low change failure rates, and rapid recovery.
• Set and evolve technical direction and architecture in alignment with product strategy and enterprise guardrails.
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs among speed, quality, cost, and technical debt.
• Ensure systems are designed for resilience, observability, and security by default.
• Partner with Product Management and Product Design in product discovery, feasibility assessment, and solution shaping.
• Challenge assumptions with data, prototypes, and technical insight.
• Communicate complex technology concepts so business leaders and customers can understand them.
• Interpret business strategy and priorities into technology solutions.
• Mentor and coach engineers in craftsmanship, systems thinking, and product mindset; help develop an empowered engineering team.
• Create an environment of ownership, psychological safety, and accountability.
• Establish and enforce standards for code quality, test automation, CI/CD, DevOps, security, privacy, and compliance.
• Reduce toil through automation and platform leverage, and deliberately pay down technical debt.
• Communicate technical tradeoffs to executives and partners; align product-level engineering decisions with platform, architecture, and security leaders.
• Influence enterprise practices and stakeholders through credibility and outcomes, without relying on hierarchy.
• Create and execute technology-led strategies that enable Customer and Commercial functions in an FMCG environment.
• Lead technology experimentation from hypothesis and rapid prototyping through production deployment.
• Define measurable business outcomes and remain directly accountable for achieving them through technology and product delivery.
• Provide hiring and performance input for engineering roles on the team.

Benefits

• A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position.
• Annual incentive reference value of 30% at target.
• Relocation provided.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior