Engineering Manager

Big Lots; Everett (WA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Mentorship

Flexible Everett setup

Job summary

Big Lots, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to translate customer-obsessed ideas about Terraform into customer-ready tech.

The role centers on ownership of technology work after six years at the company, with a focus on delivering reliable AWS-backed services from Everett, WA. The position requires leadership in Terraform and Flask, comfort with data-driven decisions, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, quality-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams in production environments.
• Ability to translate data into actionable recommendations.
• Willingness to relocate to Everett, WA or work remote.

Responsibilities

• Keep the technology AWS service humming through Everett's holiday traffic surge.
• Keep Swift schemas backward-compatible so Big Lots never forces a breaking upgrade.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems.
• Carry the Decision Making platform work that makes Big Lots's next WA expansion boring.
• Question the high-growth Decision Making pattern everyone copied and propose something cleaner.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Big Lots workloads.
• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Growth Mindset acceptance criteria.

Skills

Decision Making

Flask

Terraform

Data interpretation

Collaboration

Remote work

Tools

Flask

Terraform

Job description

Big Lots is looking for an Engineering Manager who can turn customer-obsessed ideas about Terraform into something a customer never has to think about. The headline is $150,000 - $205,000, but the story is ownership — technology work you steer at Big Lots after just 6 years.

Key Responsibilities

• Keep the technology AWS service humming through Everett's holiday traffic surge
• Keep Swift schemas backward-compatible so Big Lots never forces a breaking upgrade
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
• Carry the Decision Making platform work that makes Big Lots's next WA expansion boring
• Question the high-growth Decision Making pattern everyone copied and propose something cleaner
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Big Lots workloads
• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Growth Mindset acceptance criteria

What You'll Bring

• Equal parts Decision Making depth and Flask curiosity
• Fluency across Flask and Terraform, with strong opinions on both
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, quality-focused environment
• Comfort interpreting data and translating findings into clear recommendations
• A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame
• Willingness to relocate to Everett, WA, or to make remote work
• Manager mastery of Terraform, validated by people who'd hire you again

Big Lots is a detail-loving, customer-obsessed technology company proudly built in Everett, WA. We celebrate the person who asks the dumb question that saves the whole technology project.

You get $150,000 - $205,000, a growth runway, a mentor, full benefits, and a flexible Everett, WA setup, no fine print, no catch.

Applications submitted this week are going straight into our current review cycle.