engineer lead - ST

Job Summary and Mission

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

Bachelors degree in computer science or related field

PreferredQualifications

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