Civil Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; West Covina (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental plan

Vision plan

Annual bonuses tied to teamPerformance

Job summary

Costco is seeking a Civil Engineer in West Covina, CA to push our platform forward. You will bring calm, clear communication, and a strong drive to ship impactful changes.

Expect close collaboration across teams, leveraging Next.js and Kubernetes to optimize architecture and performance. The role emphasizes leadership, data-driven storytelling, and delivering meaningful results while balancing on-call pressures and stakeholder expectations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technology experience near West Covina, CA
• Ability to deliver bad news clearly and on time
• Strong Next.js depth and Kubernetes curiosity
• Proven track record of shipping initiatives
• Proven leadership experience guiding mid-level initiatives
• Storytelling to turn data into a decision

Responsibilities

• Identify bottlenecks and propose architectural improvements proactively
• Profile Microservices memory use and chase down leaks crashing West Covina nodes
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
• Turn Costco's Agile on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
• Wrangle Kafka config across environments so West Covina staging mirrors production
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and Next.js libraries

Skills

Next.js

Kubernetes

Leadership

Storytelling

Shipping initiatives

Tools

Next.js

Kubernetes

Job description

Costco builds unfussy products used by teams worldwide, and we need a Civil Engineer to push our platform to the next level. Bring gently-demanding Change Management and 5 years to West Covina, and the return is $105,000 - $151,000, a temporary schedule, and influence that grows.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify bottlenecks and propose architectural improvements proactively
• Profile Microservices memory use and chase down the leaks crashing West Covina nodes
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
• Turn Costco's Agile on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
• Wrangle Kafka config across environments so West Covina staging mirrors production
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and Next.js libraries

What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated wins in technology work somewhere near West Covina, CA
• The composure to deliver bad news early and clearly
• Equal parts Next.js depth and Kubernetes curiosity
• Proven follow-through, measured in shipped things rather than good intentions
• Proven leadership experience guiding mid-level-level initiatives
• Storytelling instincts that turn data into a decision

Anchored in West Covina, CA, Costco designs the kind of craft-obsessed systems that technology teams quietly depend on every single day. Psychological safety is something we actively build, so disagreeing in good faith is encouraged.

We pair a $105,000 - $151,000 salary with health, dental, and vision plans, plus annual bonuses tied to team performance.

Last touched this morning, the Civil Engineer listing remains active and unfilled.