Platform Engineer, Nike Observability Engineering

Title: Platform Engineer, Nike Observability Engineering, USA

Location: Beaverton, OR preferred - open to local

Duration: 14 months contract

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

As a Platform Engineer for Nike’s Open-source Observability Platform (NOOP), one of the products in Observability Engineering, you'll be responsible for implementing end-to-end technical solutions in support of the Nike Platform Strategy. You'll work closely with other Platform Engineers to deliver technical design and solutions, contributing to the future success of the business through innovations in technology.

Scope and Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design and development of technical solutions for the Kubernetes-based Foundational Observability Platform (NOOP).
• Hands-on development of Kubernetes controllers, Crossplane compositions, and Git Ops deployment of CNCF components.
• Provide technical assistance to less experienced engineers.
• Adopt, implement, and promote best-in-class design and architecture principles of security, observability, availability, and resiliency.
• Partner with product to deliver stories which meet acceptance criteria.
• Contribute to ways of working, development standards, and training.
• Provide rotational support to the NIKE Digital Athletes who use our platform.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years' operating Kubernetes-based solutions in production.
• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems on public cloud computing platforms.
• Experience working with Observability vendor products (such as, but not limited to, Splunk/Grafana/Datadog/New Relic/Dynatrace.
• Strong understanding of networking protocols and layers.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience of 2+ years working with Grafana.
• Experience defining platform SLAs and adhering to those through platform governance standards.
• Experience developing Kubernetes controllers in Golang.
• Experience developing Crossplane compositions or leveraging traditional IAC solutions.
• Experience leveraging ArgoCD or similar tools to implement Git Ops.
• Ability to create abstracted solutions that do not rely on any on Cloud Service Provider.
• Able to navigate governance and compliance requirements of Global Platforms.
• Passionate about delighting enterprise customers, and an understanding of enterprise workloads.