Staff Engineer

Best Buy•Richfield, MN

18h•Hybrid

About The Position

As the Staff Engineer on the Product Availability & Fulfillment team, you’ll lead the technical strategy behind serving product availability, get‑it‑by dates, and delivery pricing at massive scale—supporting Best Buy’s 2M+ product catalog across 40K customer zip codes. Day to day, you’ll partner closely with product, data science, domain teams, business operations, and SRE to design, build, and optimize a resilient, cloud‑native platform that powers critical customer experiences. A successful candidate brings deep cloud architecture expertise, a track record of technical leadership across complex systems, and the ability to mentor engineers while influencing beyond their immediate teams. What makes this role especially exciting is the opportunity to shape enterprise‑level tooling and modernization efforts while solving meaningful, high‑impact problems at scale. This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work on site at the Best Buy corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

Requirements

5 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent relevant professional experience
5 years of programming or scripting language experience (Java/Spring, React, Next.js, Typescript)
3 years of experience building custom systems, cloud environments (GCP & AWS) and architecture design in large environments
3 years of experience with systems like Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Grafana, Dynatrace and Kubernetes
3 years of experience with formal or informal leadership
Experience with Agile methodologies and modern software development practices including Scrum and Kanban

Nice To Haves

5 years of experience with Cloud Platforms (AWC, GCP)
Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
3 years of experience in Retail and eCommerce
5 years of experience with engineering custom solutions using modern languages, cloud technologies and SDLC practices and tools.
Experience working in retail, marketing, or similar technologies and related areas

Responsibilities

Shapes and influences the architecture of complex, multi‑system platforms across teams.
Solves highly complex engineering problems using innovative and forward‑thinking approaches.
Clearly communicates tradeoffs across technical, analytical, and product considerations.
Drives improvements across the SDLC, reliability, monitoring, and operational efficiency through shared standards and tooling.
Upholds high standards for quality, performance, reliability, and incident response while building strong technical and business relationships.