software engineer principal, data services (Hybrid-Seattle, WA)

Starbucks•Seattle, WA

66d•Hybrid

About The Position

From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but that also brought a feeling of connection. We are known for developing extraordinary leaders who share this passion and are guided by their service to others. Are you passionate about driving data-driven innovation? We're seeking a talented Principal Engineer to join our team and revolutionize our data capabilities at Starbucks! This is your chance to make a monumental impact by leading the charge in streamlining and innovating our data platform and services across the enterprise, from corporate and supply chain to our customer, partner and in-store experience. Become the leader of a centralized enterprise data management team, ensuring real-time data access and unparalleled accuracy across all our channels. 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.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

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

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
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
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
access to backup care
DACA reimbursement