engineer senior, Retail and Consumer Technology- ST; Seattle, WA

Starbucks Coffee Company•Seattle, WA

19h•Hybrid

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

As a Starbucks partner, you (and your family) will have access to medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits.
Partners have access to 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, and two personal days per year.
Starbucks also offers eligible partners participation in a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, a discounted company stock program (S.I.P.), Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock), incentivized emergency savings, and financial well-being tools.
Additionally, Starbucks offers 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.
You will also have access to backup care and DACA reimbursement.
Starbucks will comply with any applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, and in accordance with its plans and policies.
This list is subject to change depending on collective bargaining in locations where partners have a certified bargaining representative.
For additional information regarding partner perks and more detailed information about benefits, go to starbucksbenefits.com.
If you are working in CA, CO, IL, LA, ME, MA, NE, ND or RI, you will accrue vacation up to a maximum of 120 hours (190 in CA) for roles below director and 200 hours (316 in CA) for roles at director or above.
For roles in other states, you will be granted vacation time starting at 120 hours annually for roles below director and 200 hours annually for roles director and above.