software engineer, ST, Seattle, WA

About the Role

As an Engineer, you’ll help deliver high-quality, reliable, and stable technologies and security capabilities that enable teams to build, release, and operate software with confidence. You’ll support critical engineering capabilities through installation, configuration, monitoring, analysis, maintenance, and technical support—while modeling Starbucks guiding principles.

Key Responsibilities

• Enable fast, reliable delivery by supporting development teams, resolving developer issues, and engineering build and release processes.
• Strengthen reliability and observability by implementing service monitoring, deep telemetry, and high-availability operational support—automating solutions across the environment.
• Build secure and compliant foundations by implementing technologies aligned to information security principles, maintaining secure configurations/baselines, and upholding applicable policies and regulatory requirements.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 0–4 years of professional industry experience with software development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Systems & production operations: 1+ years in systems/network administration or systems engineering, plus hands-on production support (monitoring/telemetry, troubleshooting, incident response; 24x7/on-call a plus).
• Automation & coding: 1+ years coding/scripting for automation in Python, Java, Go, or C/C++ (Ruby/Perl also welcome) with strong debugging skills.
• Cloud & delivery tooling: experience with AWS/Azure and exposure to CI/CD or build/release tooling and automation.
• Core technical foundations: working knowledge of distributed systems, TCP/IP networking (DNS/routing), and databases/data stores (SQL/NoSQL).