Senior Engineer - Asset Protection; Hybrid - Seattle

Job Description

The Asset Protection team in Nordstrom’s Store Experience Technology organization is on a mission to reduce shrink, detect fraud, and enhance the safety of customers and employees across the Nordstrom enterprise. We build and maintain the data pipelines, services, and real‑time alerting that power the tools security professionals use every day to investigate fraud and protect our stores.

As a Senior Engineer on the team, you’ll own complex problems end to end — from shaping the design with product and business partners to shipping resilient, well‑tested code into production. You’ll mentor other engineers, raise the bar on quality, and help us evolve our cloud‑native, event‑driven architecture.

A day in the life

• Write production code as a core part of your week — this is a hands‑on individual contributor role, and you’ll be one of the people shipping the work, not just shaping it
• Lead the design, development, and operation of complex distributed systems that process sales transactions, in‑store alerts, and other business data
• Build using strong development practices: write clear, maintainable code; cover it with meaningful tests; instrument it for production; and keep technical debt in check
• Perform thoughtful code reviews that catch real issues, share context, and help teammates grow — and welcome the same in return on your own work
• Work through design problems alongside the team — whiteboarding, debating tradeoffs, and arriving at better solutions together
• Take the time to understand the why behind a problem before reaching for a solution, including the business context, the user experience, and the constraints that shaped the existing system
• Partner with engineers, product managers, business stakeholders, and vendors to turn ambiguous problems into well‑scoped solutions — translating business needs into functional requirements, and technical tradeoffs into language the business can act on
• Mentor other engineers and help the team continuously raise its bar on quality, automation, and delivery speed
• Operate with a Dev Ops mindset: own your service in production, including monitoring, alerting, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure
• Develop practices for delivering high‑quality code with the help of AI coding assistants

• 4+ years of professional experience writing, shipping, and supporting production‑quality software
• Strong proficiency in Java and the Spring Boot framework
• Familiarity with RESTful microservices and the tools used to work with them (Postman, curl, OpenAPI/Swagger)
• Experience with a major public cloud (AWS or GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with event streaming and messaging (Kafka, Confluent, SQS) and the patterns that go with them
• Comfort with modern infrastructure‑as‑code and CI/CD tooling (Git Lab CI/CD, Terraform)
• Familiarity with observability tools (New Relic, Splunk, Grafana) and a habit of instrumenting what you ship
• A solid testing discipline across unit, integration, regression, and load testing
• Experience with relational and/or No
  
  SQL data stores
• A track record of leading the design of complex systems and features, supported by clear technical specs and diagrams
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to propose, evaluate, and defend technical designs on their merits and tradeoffs
• Energized by building solutions with a team — you do your best work in collaboration, not in isolation
• A willingness to question existing patterns and assumptions when it improves security, performance, maintainability, or business fit
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience

• Experience with point‑of‑sale systems or retail technology
• Background in fraud detection, security, or other domains where data integrity and low latency really matter
• Hands‑on experience designing and building RESTful microservices

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away

Life Insurance and Disability

Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

The pay range(s) below have been provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be different for other locations.

Pay offers are dependent on the location, as well as job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience.

$ - $ Annual
This position may be eligible for performance‑based incentives/bonuses. Benefits include 401k, medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options, PTO accruals, Holidays, and more. Eligibility requirements may apply based on location, job level, classification, and length of employment. Learn more in the Nordstrom Benefits Overview by copying and pasting the following URL into your browser: