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REI · 4 days ago

Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Director

$141K/yr - $240K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Guide teams building supporting platforms for Cloud Native, API and Event driven, Java applications for Customer Engagement and Business Functions

Define what true developer productivity is, what constitutes a great developer platform at speed and scale, and how to bring this to practice

Build and manage an organization of engineering teams accountable for the custom Dev CI/CD experience at REI (CI/CD in context of Provisioning, Building, Testing, Release, Deployment and Runtime.)

Drive the team supporting and iterating on API Management Platforms. (e.g. Gloo, Apigee)

Growing a Service Discovery, Service Routing and Service Mesh tech stack for use across REI’s various application stacks (e.g. Isitio, Envoy, Gloo)

Help drive Cloud Adoption, Cloud Compliance and Cloud Engineering consistency across REI tech teams

Manage the build and release of a new enterprise Developer Platform experience (e.g. Spotify Backstage)

Working in an agile engineering area focused on continuous innovation and continuous improvement

Be an amazing t-shaped leader with authentic enthusiasm for helping our Developers increase productivity and accelerate REI’s integration platform journey

Cultivate partnerships across Architecture, Security, Development, Product and Infrastructure teams

Handle planning and breaking down large projects; Manage program and project risks appropriately; Identify and mitigate internal and cross-functional dependencies and blockers

Drive technical decision making through objectively assessing trade-offs based on architecture, scope, complexity, business priorities, and impact to developer experience at REI

Leverage a strong technical foundation and experience to provide appropriate guidance to a growing organization

Build pipeline tooling to support REI’s Data Center Exit

Integration Developer Platforms tooling and offerings with Runtime tooling and services

Cultivate career growth through setting objectives, regular feedback, and sharing best practices

Recruit new talent to contribute to our Platform engineering teams

Qualification

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Software EngineeringAPIEvent-Based ArchitecturesRetail IntegrationTechnical TranslationSupervisory ExperienceAWSJava SpringCloud SecurityAPI ManagementService RoutingService DiscoveryService MeshEvent StreamingContinuous IntegrationBuild ToolsContainer OrchestrationRuntime ToolingCI/CDProduct-Led EngineeringLeadershipAgilityCommunicationProblem-SolvingTeamwork

Required

Leadership experience in a shared platform context being a change agent at scale

Background as a Software Engineer with an expertise of what it takes to ship code and what an optimal developer experience is based on first hand knowledge

Proven knowledge of API and Event based architectures and value real time integrations have to Retail

Proven ability to take features and functionality from requirements to completion, while maintaining agility, security and quality control

Translating business requirements to technical needs and the inverse, translating technical problems to a non-technical audience

5+ years supervisory experience in the information technology field and the ability to direct technical work teams

AWS and cloud technologies

Understanding Java Spring Software Development Frameworks

Building in Security in Cloud and Integration platforms (auth, encryption, WAF, etc)

API Management Platforms (Apigee, Gloo)

Service Routing, Service Discovery, Service Mesh (Isitio, Consul)

Event Streaming Platforms (Kinesis, Confluent Kafka)

Continuous Integration tools and scripting (Jenkins, Groovy, etc)

Build tools (Maven, Gradle, Ant)

Container orchestration systems. (Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, etc)

Runtime Tooling and Services (Datadog, Kibana, Grafana, Circuit Breaking Patterns, etc)

Template based CI/CD (GitLab)

Ability to operate in a Product-led approach for Engineering

Benefits

Employee discount

Health benefits

Retirement savings plan

Accrued time off

Company

REI

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At Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), we exist to inspire and enable life outside for everyone.

Founded in 1938

Kent, Washington, USA

10,001+ employees

https://www.rei.com/

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