Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – AWS & Infra Automation

Cloudjobs; West Virginia; Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

PTO 18 days

401(k) matching

Employee discounts

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Grainger is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to help scale the Platform Product team. You will design automated, self-service capabilities across engineering, focusing on cloud practices and reducing risk while maintaining delivery speed.

You will report to the Manager of Platform Engineering. Visa sponsorship is not available. The role emphasizes automation, observability, and collaboration across teams in a hybrid work setup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of experience in software engineering, architecture, administration, observability in a large and distributed environment.
• Knowledge of cloud native event-driven microservices-based architectures, including performance, resiliency, observability, monitoring, service discovery, and routing.
• 3 years as a full stack engineer building and operating services in production, including modern web frontends with React or a similar framework.
• 3 years coding in higher-level languages such as Python or Java in a multi-team codebase.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and evolve automated capabilities that are self-service, efficient, and dependable and can be leveraged company-wide across engineering teams.
• Pick up new technologies, languages and frameworks quickly, apply them to your daily work, and share learnings to upskill the team.
• Work independently on ambiguous problems, drive designs to decisions, and mentor other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical talks.
• Continuously identify and reduce technical debt that increases risk or developer friction.
• Collaborate with your Engineering Manager and provide feedback on product roadmaps and backlog priorities.
• Coordinate with Product Engineering to design solutions that automate cloud processes across the SDLC.
• Suggest secure defaults and advise on clean coding practices, pipeline test coverage, and observability/alerting.
• Participate in standups, desk checks, tech huddles, and story grooming meetings to provide guidance where it moves the work forward.
• Record decisions, context, and outcomes related to design choices, and prepare Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• AI first mindset and contribute with AI ways of working.

Skills

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Python

Java

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering/CS

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Python

Java

Job description

Grainger is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to help scale the Platform Product team. You will design automated, self-service capabilities across engineering, focusing on cloud practices and reducing risk while maintaining delivery speed.

You will report to the Manager of Platform Engineering. Visa sponsorship is not available. The role emphasizes automation, observability, and collaboration across teams in a hybrid work setup.