software engineer sr - ST- Cloud Foundation Services; Seattle, WA

This role contributes to Starbucks’ success by delivering reliable, secure, and high-quality technologies that support the Starbucks Engineering Platform. As a senior engineer, you will collaborate with platform engineering teams to plan, deliver, and operate solutions, while shaping technology strategy and roadmaps for new and existing capabilities. This position requires technical leadership, deep domain expertise, and broad platform knowledge.

Key Responsibilities

• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.

• Build strong cross-functional relationships with business and technology partners.

• Support development teams by resolving issues promptly and accurately.

• Design and maintain build and release processes.

• Manage and collaborate with technology vendors to meet business objectives.

• Research and recommend standards, products, and services.

• Ensure application and infrastructure solutions are stable, secure, and compliant.

• Implement technologies following Information Security principles for sensitive data.

• Provide high-availability operational support and automate solutions.

• Develop telemetry and monitoring capabilities to ensure system performance and continuity.

• Maintain system configurations and baselines to support secure development practices.

• Uphold company policies and regulatory requirements (e.g., PCI).

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

• 4–8 years of professional software development experience.

Technical Proficiency

• Experience in platform engineering and product development teams.

• Strong understanding of application architecture, infrastructure, and security.

• Ability to quickly learn cloud-based technologies (e.g., managed data services, eventing, secrets management).

• Expertise in AWS or Azure cloud computing concepts.

• Hands-on coding and code review skills (Golang preferred).

Knowledge of

• System architecture and design

• Data storage (Postgres, DynamoDB, Cassandra)

• Platform as a Service

• Monitoring, auditing, and operations

• Experience with orchestration/configuration management and CI/CD tools (Docker/Kubernetes)

• AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline, ArgoCD, Terraform, Datadog). '

• Proficient in Linux containers, cloud networking, and incident troubleshooting.

Domain Proficiency

• Deep understanding of cloud platforms and application capabilities, APIs, and process flows.

• Awareness of business context and functional aspects of solutions.

• Contribute to platform strategy, operational processes, and security frameworks.

• Develop and deploy solutions using Agile and continuous delivery practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

• Proficiency in languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby.

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures.

• Ability to debug, optimize, and automate tasks.

• Knowledge of regulatory requirements (SOX, PCI, HIPAA).

• Experience managing high-capacity, mission-critical environments.

• Strong database knowledge and networking proficiency (TCP/IP, DNS, routing).

• Experience supporting 24x7 production environments.