Job Summary and Mission
Now Brewing – Platform Engineer Sr. #tobeapartner
  
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.

The Edge Engineering team’s focus is building massively scalable full stack infrastructure for Starbucks owned, licensed and franchise stores. This role will concentrate on building infrastructure automation leveraging a declarative GitOps approach across multiple infrastructure domains. Help us extend and leverage our capabilities across network, compute, virtualization, and containerized functions. Prior experience with CI/CD, Git, Python, Linux and Kubernetes are vital. Familiarity with cloud native design patterns, edge computing solutions, Openstack and managing thousands of Kubernetes clusters are highly desirable.

If you are driven by innovation, and technical challenges, and want to be a part of some amazing, industry-leading work, join us.

Summary of Key Responsibilities  

Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:   
  
Technical Design and Implementation

Collaborate on Platform Development - Help develop and grow edge compute platform for entire company owned retail stores in USA and Canada. 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 for hosted applications and internal services. 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.  

Platform Stewardship  

Partners with cross functional teams, such as Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, QA, and key Development teams, to drive designs and solutions to ensure compliant, secure, and supportable solutions.    Deepens vendor relationships to understand and influence vendor product offerings and roadmaps, improves support engagement, and gains insight into technology trends.    

Production Support for application components   

Fulfills responsibilities for on call support for the application components.  Assists with the creation and reporting of operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on items such as application performance.   Creates and maintains documentation supporting training, deployment, and operational processes. 

Basic Qualifications

7 years of professional industry experience with infrastructure automation including Linux and shell/bash scripting. Equivalent work experience or bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.  Knowledge and experience designing and developing complex infrastructure systems. Working understanding of application architecture, infrastructure, security concepts, and technical implementation. Thorough understanding of relevant platforms and applications, including established APIs, system activity components, process flows and application configuration. Experience with administering geographically separated Kubernetes clusters. Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices.

Preferred Qualifications  
Technical Proficiency

Aptitude and eagerness to investigate and learn new technologies and trends as they become relevant for the business and our platforms. Ability to write and value high quality, reusable code with minimal defects. Ability to work directly with users to understand, diagnose, and propose solutions to their problems.  

Domain Proficiency  

Knowledge of business context and trends, as well as the business customers’ opportunities. Awareness of the functional aspects of the solution. 
Capable of developing and deploying cloud-native software and infrastructure (AWS or Azure) in an automated fashion. 

Interpersonal Skills

Shows strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Effectively uses facts and data to build support for solutions across teams and stakeholders.  Capable of working either independently on tasks or as a collaborative unit as best fits the problem at hand.  Ability to negotiate priorities, approach, design and ideas with team members and customers.

Join us and be part of something bigger.  Apply today!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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.