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

Starbucks Coffee Company•Seattle, WA

2h•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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 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