engineer senior, Retail and Consumer Technology- ST; Seattle, WA
About The Position
We are hiring a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to build and operate highly scalable, highly available backend services running across cloud and edge environments. This is a coding-first role: you will spend much of your time designing, writing, reviewing, and debugging production code. The Fulfill and Manage Orders engineering team builds and maintains the software platform that provides best-in-class order fulfilment services and applications in 10,000+ coffeehouses and enables world class customer service. This is a unique opportunity to bring your technical expertise and leadership skills to make a positive impact and contribute directly to the Starbucks strategy. The ideal candidate enjoys working close to the system, solving hard distributed-systems problems, and owning services end-to-end—from design and implementation to deployment and on-call support—using C#/.NET and/or Go on Microsoft Azure.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building backend services in production environments.
- Strong hands-on coding experience with C#/.NET and familiarity with frontend frameworks.
- Practical experience with Microsoft Azure in real production systems.
- Proven experience building highly scalable and highly available services.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, networking, security and distributed systems.
- Experience debugging issues across complex service environments.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to dive into code.
- Experience leveraging AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub CoPilot or similar) in your daily workflow
- Proven track record of end-to-end service ownership including on-call support
- Effective partnership and collaboration with stakeholders
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, or orchestration.
- Familiarity with Azure services such as AKS, Functions, Cosmos DB, or Service Bus.
- Experience with edge computing, IoT, or globally distributed workloads.
- Strong observability and reliability mindset.
Responsibilities
- Write production code using C#/.NET and/or Go to build backend services.
- Design and implement scalable APIs, background workers, and event-driven services.
- Improve system latency, throughput, and availability through hands-on optimization.
- Own features and services from design through deployment and operations.
- Diagnose and fix issues in live, distributed production systems.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident root-cause analysis.
- Review code and designs with peers, focused on correctness, performance, and long-term maintainability.
- Build and deploy services on Microsoft Azure using managed services.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment automation.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits.
- short-term and long-term disability
- paid parental leave
- family expansion reimbursement
- paid vacation from date of hire
- sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked)
- eight paid holidays
- two personal days per year.
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- discounted company stock program (S.I.P.)
- Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock)
- incentivized emergency savings
- 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
- access to other educational opportunities.
- backup care
- DACA reimbursement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
