IoT engineer II - ST, Seattle, WA

Starbucks Corp.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Parental Leave

401(k) Match

Tuition Coverage

Stock Program

Disability Insurance

Vacation

Sick Time

Holidays

Personal Days

Backup Care

DACA Reimbursement

Job summary

The IoT Engineer II at Starbucks Coffee Company designs, develops, tests, deploys, and supports software that connects retail devices and edge systems to secure cloud services. You will work across device integrations, telemetry, APIs, tooling, and web experiences used by engineering and support teams.

Responsibilities include building Python-based APIs, event-driven messaging, dashboards, and containerized services on Azure or AWS, while applying secure engineering practices and contributing to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a related field.
• 2+ years in application/software development, IoT, or edge computing.
• Experience with Python and at least one of C, C++, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• Experience with REST APIs, testing, source control, CI/CD, and cloud deployments.
• Linux, networking fundamentals, and Agile team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and support IoT software connecting devices to cloud services.
• Build edge and backend services, and dashboards for fleet visibility and diagnostics.
• Develop Python-based APIs and microservices for device onboarding and telemetry.
• Implement event-driven integrations using MQTT, Kafka, or similar tech.
• Operate containerized services with Kubernetes on Azure or AWS.
• Apply secure engineering practices including auth, secrets, and certificate management.
• Create observability with logging, metrics, and alerting; assist in incident response.
• Collaborate with product, operations, cybersecurity, and data teams on requirements.
• Contribute to design reviews, release readiness, and engineering standards.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

REST APIs

CI/CD

Agile

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Linux

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

MQTT

Kafka

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

Azure Monitor

Job description

Role Summary

The IoT Engineer II designs, develops, tests, deploys, and supports software that connects retail devices and edge systems to secure, scalable cloud services. This engineer works across device integrations, telemetry and messaging, backend APIs, operational tooling, and web experiences used by engineering and support teams. The role independently delivers well-defined features, contributes to solution design, and improves the reliability and supportability of connected-device platforms.

Role Summary

The IoT Engineer II designs, develops, tests, deploys, and supports software that connects retail devices and edge systems to secure, scalable cloud services. This engineer works across device integrations, telemetry and messaging, backend APIs, operational tooling, and web experiences used by engineering and support teams. The role independently delivers well-defined features, contributes to solution design, and improves the reliability and supportability of connected-device platforms.

What You Will Do

• Develop and maintain IoT applications and services using Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript, including unit, integration, and automated test coverage.
• Build software that runs on Linux-based edge devices and communicates with sensors, controllers, peripherals, gateways, and connected retail equipment.
• Develop Python-based APIs and microservices for device onboarding, configuration, telemetry ingestion, command and control, and operational workflows.
• Implement event-driven integrations using MQTT, Kafka, or comparable messaging technologies, with appropriate retry, ordering, durability, and failure-handling patterns.
• Create React-based dashboards and administrative tools that improve fleet visibility, device health monitoring, diagnostics, and support workflows.
• Deploy and operate containerized services using Kubernetes and public cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
• Apply secure engineering practices, including authentication, authorization, certificate or token management, secrets handling, dependency management, and protection of device-to-cloud communications.
• Build observability through structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and actionable alerts; participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Contribute to requirements analysis, technical design, prototypes, code reviews, release readiness, documentation, and continuous improvement of engineering standards.
• Partner with product, store operations, cybersecurity, networking, data engineering, support, and vendor teams to deliver reliable connected solutions.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 2 years of professional experience in application development, software engineering, platform engineering, IoT, edge computing, or a related role.
• Professional experience developing production software with Python and at least one of C, C++, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, automated testing, source control, pull requests, code review, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience deploying or supporting applications in Azure, AWS, or another public cloud environment.
• Working knowledge of Linux, networking fundamentals, and troubleshooting across application, device, and infrastructure layers.
• Experience working in an Agile engineering team and using tools such as GitHub, Jira, and Confluence.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and collaborate across engineering and business functions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with connected-device platforms, device telemetry, fleet management, provisioning, remote configuration, or lifecycle management.
• Experience with MQTT, Kafka, AMQP, or other event-driven and device-messaging technologies.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native operational practices.
• Experience building React applications, support dashboards, or administrative interfaces.
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and practical SQL development.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, or Azure Monitor.
• Experience supporting retail technology, operational technology, connected appliances, sensors, digital displays, or other distributed hardware environments.
• Knowledge of secure device identity, certificate-based authentication, secrets rotation, vulnerability management, and software supply-chain controls.

As a Starbucks partner, you (and your family) will have access to medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits. Partners have access to short-term and long-term disability, paid parental leave, family expansion reimbursement, paid vacation from date of hire*, sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked), eight paid holidays, and two personal days per year. Starbucks also offers eligible partners participation in a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, a discounted company stock program (S.I.P.), Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock), incentivized emergency savings, and financial well-being tools. Additionally, Starbucks offers 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor's degree through Arizona State University's online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, student loan management resources, and access to other educational opportunities. You will also have access to backup care and DACA reimbursement. Starbucks will comply with any applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, and in accordance with its plans and policies. This list is subject to change depending on collective bargaining in locations where partners have a certified bargaining representative. For additional information regarding partner perks and more detailed information about benefits, go to starbucksbenefits.com.

• If you are working in CA, CO, IL, LA, ME, MA, NE, ND or RI, you will accrue vacation up to a maximum of 120 hours (190 in CA) for roles below director and 200 hours (316 in CA) for roles at director or above. For roles in other states, you will be granted vacation time starting at 120 hours annually for roles below director and 200 hours annually for roles director and above.

The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will be based on multiple factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, and internal equity. At Starbucks, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the high end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

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Starbucks Coffee Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances. Starbucks Coffee Company is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at applicantaccommodation or 1(888) 611-2258.