Sr. Software Engineer II

KFC Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

KFC Corporation, a global restaurant brand, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Developer Experience & Architecture team. You will contribute to foundational systems, including federated GraphQL, gateways, shared libraries, and platform observability, enabling product teams to build secure and reliable services.

As a senior IC and technical leader, you will shape platform standards, tooling, and architectural decisions that affect millions of customers and internal applications

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Developer Experience & Architecture team. The team builds shared platforms, frameworks, tooling, and engineering standards that help product teams develop and operate services securely, reliably, and efficiently. In this role, you will be a senior individual contributor and technical leader working on foundational systems across the organization, including our federated GraphQL platform, gateways, shared libraries, developer tooling, authentication and authorization capabilities, and platform observability. Our Platform Graph is a key entry point to services supporting millions of customers worldwide as well as internal applications and business users. You will help evolve this platform as new products, markets, and technical requirements emerge. This is a high-leverage platform role: the goal is to solve common engineering problems once, at the platform layer, and provide paved roads that make secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions easier for teams to adopt.