engineer lead-ST

Company: Starbucks
Location: Seattle
Posted on: October 29, 2024

Job Description:

Job Description
At Starbucks, our mission is with every cup, with every conversation, with every community – we nurture limitless possibilities of human connection. Starbucks Technologists work to achieve this mission through the use of cutting-edge technology delivered to our partners, customers, stores, roasters, and global communities.
This job contributes to Starbucks success by delivering high-quality, reliable, and stable technologies and security capabilities in support of the Starbucks Engineering Platform. This position is accountable for the installation, configuration, monitoring, analysis, maintenance, and technical support of the platform.
Models and acts in accordance with Starbucks guiding principles.

Summary of Key Responsibilities

• Leading and guiding the team to deliver business features
• 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
• Ability to effectively manage and partner with technology vendors to deliver against business objectives
• 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
• Implements and maintains system configurations and baselines to support secure application development software control best practices and standards
Basic Qualifications
Education (minimum education level, degree or certification necessary):
• 7-10 years of professional industry experience with software development
• 2 years of leading teams of four or more software developers
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
Preferred Qualifications
Skills (minimum skills required):
• 2+ years of experience in system administration, network administration, and systems engineering
• 3+ years of experience in working with microservices and containerization.
• 3+ years of experience in working with ETL
• 3+ years of experience with spark or similar data processing engines
• 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Java
• 3+ years of experience with kafka or similar distributed messaging
• 2+ years of experience with Cassandra or similar no-sql databases.
• 2+ Experience in working with azure or any other cloud platform
• 3+ years Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
• Demonstrated ability to debug and optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
• Interest in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven ability to translate insights into business recommendations
• Knowledge in application development and supporting a development environment
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine)
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant legal and regulatory requirements, such as SOX, PCI, HIPAA, Data Protection, etc.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and managing high capacity, redundant, and mission critical environments
• Knowledge in databases and comfortable with various databases technologies
• Proficiency in TCP/IP networking, architecture and core technologies ( DNS, routing, iptables, tc, etc.)
• Experience running and maintaining a 24x7 production environment

Years of experience in specific field or utilizing designated skills (minimum needed to be qualified): 7+ years

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.

The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will be based on multiple factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, and internal equity. At Starbucks, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the high end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

If you live in the greater Seattle area, we offer a flexible workplace that allows for hybrid work. Partners can work remotely up to two days per week.
Join us and inspire with every cup. Apply today!
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, gender identity and expression, genetic information, or any other factor protected by law.
We are committed to creating a diverse and welcoming workplace that includes partners with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We believe that enables us to better meet our mission and values while serving customers throughout our global communities. People of color, women, LGBTQIA+, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal state and local ordinances. Starbucks Corporation is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at applicantaccommodation@starbucks.com.

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