Starbucks · 5 hours ago
engineering manager DevX GenAI - ST, Seattle WA
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$162K/yr - $270K/yr
4+ years expStarbucks is a company dedicated to inspiring and nurturing the human spirit through technology. They are seeking an Engineering Manager for Developer Productivity and Automation to lead a team focused on AI-powered developer tools and platform capabilities, ensuring production readiness and integration with existing systems.
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Responsibilities
Identifies and communicates key responsibilities and practices to ensure the immediate team of direct reports promotes a successful attitude, confidence in leadership, and teamwork to achieve business results
Defines and drives the technical vision and roadmap for AI-powered developer tools and agent development across Starbucks by partnering closely with engineering teams to understand workflows, identify high-impact opportunities, and drive adoption of new DevAI capabilities
Leads teams that design, build, deploy, and operate AI-powered developer and platform capabilities with a strong emphasis on production readiness, reliability, security, observability, and platform integration
Spearheads the design, development, and deployment of AI agents and tools that address Starbucks’ engineering challenges, including but not limited to: + Advanced, context-aware code generation, completion, and refactoring + AI-powered event triage, root cause analysis, and bug remediation + Intelligent agents that optimize and augment testing, simulation, and validation workflows
Evaluates and integrates state-of-the-art agentic AI platforms and frameworks, ensuring solutions meet enterprise standards for scalability, security, and maintainability
Stays current on advancements in large language models (LLMs), generative AI, and agent architectures, and applies these advancements to solve real-world engineering problems
Establishes and enforces observability standards for AI agents, APIs, and platform services, including logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and incident response
Ensures AI agents and platform services integrate with enterprise identity and access management systems and defines patterns for authentication, authorization, secrets management, and least-privilege access
Leads initiatives that improve developer productivity across CI/CD pipelines and build tooling, including systems such as GitHub and Jenkins
Develops and implements engineering solutions that improve efficiency, increase capacity, and reduce operational costs
Applies structured problem-solving and analysis to assess technical, financial, and operational trade-offs and makes informed recommendations
Provides coaching and mentoring to engineering partners and fosters a culture of technical excellence and operational ownership
Establishes strong cross-functional relationships with business, security, infrastructure, and technology partners
Communicates highly complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
Supports development teams and resolves developer issues in a timely and accurate manner
Ensures application and infrastructure architectures are stable, secure, compliant, and aligned with company standards and practices
Partners with external vendors to support and evolve developer tooling and platform capabilities
Qualification
Required
4–8 years of professional software development experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
Demonstrates understanding of software development lifecycles, developer workflows, and modern engineering practices
Has experience leading advocacy, enablement, or training programs that drive adoption of new technologies within large engineering organizations
Preferred
5+ years of experience managing medium- to large-scale initiatives and leading cross-functional teams
5+ years of experience with one or more of the following languages: Python, Go, Java, C#, and/or Ruby
3+ years of experience designing, building, or operating large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
3+ years of experience with service resiliency, observability, and operational readiness for applications and platforms
Demonstrates familiarity with modern AI architectures and techniques, including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
Has experience designing or operating agentic AI systems, including multi-agent architectures and orchestration frameworks
Shows passion for improving developer experience and advancing AI-assisted software development
Experience with cloud computing platforms such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud
Knowledge and understanding of relevant legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., SOX, PCI, data protection)
Demonstrated experience implementing and managing high-capacity, mission-critical environments
Experience with agent development and automation tools such as Amazon AgentCore, LangGraph, or n8n
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
Helsinki Times
2026-01-16
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