Starbucks · 6 hours ago
software engineer principal, data services (Hybrid-Seattle, WA)
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$171K/yr - $284K/yr
10+ years expStarbucks is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead their Data Platform and Services Engineering team. This role focuses on driving data-driven innovation and streamlining data capabilities across the enterprise, ensuring real-time data access and accuracy while leading a team of engineers in building and enhancing critical data platforms.
CoffeeFood and BeverageRestaurantsTea
Responsibilities
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
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
Qualification
Required
10-15 years of professional industry experience with software development and platform management
5 years of leading teams of six or more software developers
3 years of demonstrating technical leadership across multiple platforms
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
9+ years in Java/Spring Boot, CQRS, event streaming, Kafka, Spark with strong experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration frameworks
7+ years of experience with implementation of highly scalable, resilient, responsive and message driven micro services on large-scale distributed mission critical platform; Demonstrated ability in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, optimize code, and automate routine tasks
5 years of managing systems of all sizes and complexities, including large distributed systems with operational responsibilities
Knowledge in databases and comfortable with various databases technologies. Examples include relational database (Oracle) and/or NoSQL data technologies (Mongo, Cassandra, Couchbase) and related toolsets
Deep experience with enterprise security protocols, building RESTful services, and best practices around cloud deployments (AWS and Azure preferred)
Exceptional communication and presentation skills: you can communicate conceptual ideas, engineering rationale, and technical challenges both verbally and visually, to a wide range of audiences
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Basic and supplemental life insurance
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
Two personal days per year
Participation in a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Discounted company stock program (S.I.P.)
Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock)
Incentivized emergency savings
Financial well-being tools
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
Access to other educational opportunities
Backup care
DACA reimbursement
Company
Starbucks
Starbucks is a restaurant chain that serves handcrafted ready-to-drink beverages, including coffee, tea, juices, and snack food items.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.65BKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.Pershing Square Capital Management
2025-05-06Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2024-07-19Post Ipo Equity
2018-10-10Post Ipo Equity· $900M
Leadership Team
Brian R. Niccol
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Cathy R. Smith
CFO
Recent News
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