Senior Principal Platform & SRE Architect

Nordstrom, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Híbrido; USD 201.000 - 332.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical/Vision & Dental

Retirement benefits (401k)

Paid Time Off

Employee discounts

Descripción de la vacante

Nordstrom, Inc. seeks a Senior Principal Engineer to steer the reliability and delivery bar for cloud platform, CI/CD, and SRE. You will set technical direction, balance trade-offs, and solve cross-team challenges at an enterprise scale within a hybrid Seattle setting.

The role shapes Nordstrom's technology landscape with a holistic One Nordstrom perspective. You will mentor engineers, influence architectural standards, and drive autonomous deployments, ensuring cost-effective, scalable

Formación

• 15+ years of professional software or infrastructure engineering experience with relevant degree.
• Deep, hands-on architectural experience with large-scale cloud platforms and Kubernetes in production.
• Proven track record in continuous delivery at enterprise scale with canary analysis and immutable artifacts.
• Experience with software supply chain security, build provenance, attestation, and policy enforcement.
• SRE practice at scale: SLOs, error budgets, observability, incident command.

Responsabilidades

• Own north star architecture for cloud platform, CI/CD, and SRE with a multi-year horizon.
• Drive platform reliability and delivery by enforcing standards in pipelines and production validation gating.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence across Platform, SRE, Security, and product teams.
• Identify industry trends to advance Nordstrom's platform in a secure, scalable way.
• Represent Nordstrom's platform engineering externally and lead architectural decisions.

Conocimientos

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes in production

SRE practices

CI/CD expertise

Cost optimization

Influence without authority

Architectural design

Incident management

Strong communication

Leadership

Educación

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Experience with large-scale cloud platforms

Descripción del empleo

Nordstrom, Inc. seeks a Senior Principal Engineer to steer the reliability and delivery bar for cloud platform, CI/CD, and SRE. You will set technical direction, balance trade-offs, and solve cross-team challenges at an enterprise scale within a hybrid Seattle setting.

The role shapes Nordstrom's technology landscape with a holistic One Nordstrom perspective. You will mentor engineers, influence architectural standards, and drive autonomous deployments, ensuring cost-effective, scalable