Senior SRE Engineer – Scale, Reliability & Observability

Starbucks Corp.

Nashville (TN)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision
401(k) with company match
Tuition coverage via Starbucks College

Job summary

Starbucks Coffee Company is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability and performance of critical platforms. You will design observability solutions, automate operations, and lead incident response while mentoring other engineers.

We value 4–8 years in software/SRE, strong Kubernetes/Docker experience, and hands-on cloud work. The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and security across production systems with on-site expectations.

Qualifications

  • 4–8 years of professional software development experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure).
  • Experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure Reliability, availability, and performance of Starbucks platforms.
  • Design and implement reliability and observability solutions; automate operational tasks.
  • Lead incident response and blameless post-incident reviews.
  • Mentor engineers and help shape SRE standards and practices.

Skills

SRE practices
Incident response
On-call rotations
Mentoring engineers
Automation mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
CloudFormation
Pulumi
Datadog
New Relic
Grafana
OpenTelemetry

Job description

Starbucks Coffee Company is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability and performance of critical platforms. You will design observability solutions, automate operations, and lead incident response while mentoring other engineers.

We value 4–8 years in software/SRE, strong Kubernetes/Docker experience, and hands-on cloud work. The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and security across production systems with on-site expectations.

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