Application developer lead- ST; Seattle WA

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application developer lead - ST;
Seattle WA at Starbucks.

$/yr - $/yr

From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but also brought a feeling of connection. The Edge Platform Engineering team focuses on building massively scalable full stack infrastructure for Starbucks owned, licensed and franchise stores. In this position you are responsible for leading a team of platform engineers through planning, delivery, and operations of solutions.

The role will concentrate on building automation using a declarative Git Ops approach across multiple infrastructure domains, and help extend and leverage our capabilities across network, computer, virtualization, and containerized functions. Prior experience with full stack automation, CI/CD, Git, Python, Golang and Kubernetes is vital, with familiarity with cloud native design patterns, edge computing solutions, and API development highly desirable.

You are also responsible for the evolvement, delivery and support of the technology strategy and roadmaps for new and existing features and capabilities of the product, requiring technical leadership experience, domain proficiency and platform breadth and depth.

• Own and communicate highly complex ideas and concepts to non‑technical peers and customers
• Build and maintain effective cross‑functional, collaborative relationships with business and technology partners
• Support the development team and perform activities to resolve developer issues in a timely and accurate fashion
• Own design and support of engineering build and release processes
• Build and maintain effective relationships with technology vendors to deliver against business objectives
• Conduct research and recommend standards, products, and services
• Ensure application and infrastructure architectural solutions are stable, secure, and compliant with company standards and practices
• Design and support all technologies in accordance with Information Security’s guiding principles for highly sensitive data
• Design and support high‑availability operational support and automated solutions across the environment
• Design and support deep telemetry capabilities to provide ongoing success and performance metrics
• Design and support service monitoring across all platforms to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems
• Uphold company policies and legal/regulatory requirements such as PCI
• Design and support system configurations and baselines to support secure application development software‑control best practices and standards

• 5‑7 years of professional industry experience with software development, platform engineering and operations
• 2‑3 years of leadership role in systems or application development projects of all sizes and complexities, including large systems
• 2‑3 years of leading or managing small technical teams
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

• Ability to lead a group of technical experts that cohesively build and operate secure, durable, flexible, accessible solutions
• Recognizes, values and champions high quality, reusable software with minimal defects on the team
• Working experience with product development teams in a platform engineering role
• Working knowledge of application architecture, infrastructure and security concepts and technical implementation
• Aptitude to pick up new technologies and trends (e.g., REST/GRPC, GoLang, Rust, cloud components)
• Expert in understanding implications from design and implementation architecture choices toward building secure, scalable, durable, flexible, accessible solutions
• Strong knowledge of AWS or Azure and Cloud Computing concepts
• Strong hands‑on coding and code review (Golang preferred)
• Strong knowledge in best practices for system architecture and design, data storage types, platform and infrastructure, monitoring, auditing, and operations
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes, Azure pipelines, Terraform (preferred)
• Linux containers, networking protocols (HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP)
• Git (preferred)
• Experience managing full application…