Senior Principal Engineer: Platform & SRE Visionary

Devopsroles; Seattle (WA); Hybride; USD 201 000 - 332 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Nordstrom is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to lead the evolution of reliability and delivery for the cloud platform, CI/CD, and SRE. You will set technical direction, shape architecture, and raise the bar for robustness, scalability, and cost-efficiency across the organization.

You'll own north-star architecture, drive cross-team standards, and mentor senior engineers while ensuring a One Nordstrom perspective in every decision.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software or infra engineering.
• Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering or related field.
• Hands-on architecture for large-scale cloud platforms and Kubernetes.
• Enterprise CD: canary, immutable artifacts, deployment/versioning.
• Software supply chain security, provenance and attestation.
• SRE at scale: SLOs, error budgets, observability.
• Resilience design: multi-region active-active/passive.
• Capacity planning and chaos testing for high-traffic retail environments.
• Cost judgment to justify reliability investments.
• Influence without authority; resolve cross-team conflicts.
• Skeptical view on AI for operations.
• Organizational design judgment; ownership boundaries.
• Clear communication to engineers and executives.

Responsabilités

• Own north-star architecture for cloud platform, CI/CD, and SRE.
• Identify platform limits before incidents; own cross-team problems.
• Attach reliability targets to business capabilities; design degradation.
• Drive consensus across Platform, SRE, Security, and product teams.
• Guide design reviews and scale SRE across the organization.
• Identify trends; decide on adoption versus skip.
• Act as technical decision maker during incidents; derive platform defaults.
• Mentor engineers and participate in hiring for senior roles.

Connaissances

SRE practices

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes in production

System architecture

Canary analysis

Observability

Resilience engineering

Formation

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or Engineering

Outils

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Service mesh

Description du poste

Nordstrom is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to lead the evolution of reliability and delivery for the cloud platform, CI/CD, and SRE. You will set technical direction, shape architecture, and raise the bar for robustness, scalability, and cost-efficiency across the organization.

You'll own north-star architecture, drive cross-team standards, and mentor senior engineers while ensuring a One Nordstrom perspective in every decision.