Staff Platform Software Engineer

Company Summary

is a leading eCommerce platform offering nearly 12 million tools, parts and supplies for our business customers. Launched in 2011, we brought a B2C-like experience to the B2B industry, and continue to be at the frontier of digital innovation at the intersection of technology and distribution. We have rapidly grown to over $1 billion in annual revenue and we’re just getting started!

is a leading eCommerce platform offering nearly 12 million tools, parts and supplies for our business customers. Launched in 2011, we brought a B2C-like experience to the B2B industry, and continue to be at the frontier of digital innovation at the intersection of technology and distribution. We have rapidly grown to over $1 billion in annual revenue and we’re just getting started!

As a Staff Platform Software Engineer on Zoro’s Enterprise Platform Engineering group for AMP, you’ll provide strategic technical leadership and drive significant improvements to foundational platform services used by other Zoro engineering teams. This role is suited for highly experienced engineers who excel in defining technical direction, influencing broad architectural choices, and mentoring engineers across the organization.

You’ll proactively tackle complex, cross-team challenges, foster a culture of engineering excellence, and continuously elevate technical standards to enhance developer productivity, reliability, and scalability.

• Architect, develop, and maintain critical foundational platform services and tools that significantly impact Zoro’s technology stack.
• Drive cross-functional technical leadership by influencing strategic architecture decisions and shaping engineering best practices across teams.
• Mentor and guide engineers at various levels, both formally through structured mentorship and informally through code reviews and technical consultations.
• Identify, define, and execute strategic technical initiatives, transforming abstract problems into actionable, high-impact projects.
• Collaborate extensively across multiple engineering teams, advocating for consistent patterns, tooling improvements, and standardized solutions.
• Lead comprehensive cross-functional system design reviews, proactively identifying systemic risks, performance bottlenecks, and opportunities for enhancing developer experience.
• Champion continuous learning, proactively introducing new technologies, methodologies, and industry trends to strengthen Zoro’s technical capabilities.
• Act as a trusted advisor to technology leadership, adapting communication style to the audience to help drive sound technical executive decisions.
• Direct complex, cross-functional rapid responses to production incidents; proactively driving systemic improvements, influencing strategic operational practices, and ensuring high reliability across critical platform services.
• Evaluate, prototype, and introduce AI-assisted engineering practices that measurably improve developer productivity, code quality, documentation standards, and operational resilience across multiple teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of professional experience in software development, particularly in backend, platform, or infrastructure roles
• Expert proficiency in multiple programming languages such as Python, Java, Type Script, or equivalent
• Proven track record of designing, building, testing, and operating complex, distributed, cloud-native systems using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus), and container orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Cloud Run)
• Excellent strategic communication skills, with a proven ability to clearly articulate complex technical strategies and trade-offs
• Experience safely integrating AI-assisted development tools into professional engineering workflows with measurable improvements in developer effectiveness, code quality, and reliability

• Significant experience influencing organizational technical roadmaps and advocating for engineering standards…