Manager - Enterprise API Platform Engineering

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST.  Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

As a member of the IT Management Team, you are responsible for managing, developing, and leading a team of employees. Your role includes leading the specific functional responsibilities of your team, which involves overseeing team performance and deliverables. However, your role as a leader within our organization requires more than the management of resources and day-to-day operations. As a steward of the company, you are charged with the development and execution of your team’s strategic vision and plan and ensuring that your team’s actions align with the larger goals of the company and the IT Division.

Your influence will extend to budget and technical considerations, with the aim of enhancing operational efficiencies and functionalities. A key part of your role will be leading the development and expansion of the next generation API Platform for Costco, thereby advancing our API product strategy and enabling efficient innovation and product delivery.  In this role, you will create the next generation of API Platform for Costco and you will lead and grow various aspects of API Platform and provide leadership to advance our API product strategy so that our partner developers, internal developers, and business decision-makers can innovate and ship products for our customers faster.

The role of the Enterprise API Gateways Manager involves the development, ongoing support and maintenance of Costco’s Application Program Interface (API) gateway platforms including ApigeeX, Apigee Edge, Datapower and Azure APIM. Supporting both on-premise and cloud implementations of multiple platforms supporting eCommerce, Merchandising, Warehouse, Distribution, Ancillary amongst other lines of business. The selected candidate’s primary role will be to help ensure Costco’s Application Program Interface (API) gateways platforms are "showtime ready" and ready to support the growing needs of Costco’s business. This role will engage across the CDS division to support Value Streams and other horizontals. The manager of this area will be skilled in negotiating with their customers to meet mutually agreed on delivery timelines and provide rigorous production support including over high volume holiday time periods. The role also involves managing and supporting the career development of a highly technical team consisting of Platforms Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Software Engineers and Product Owners. This is an ideal role for technical problem solvers who relish running a technology team in a high visibility environment while delivering at a high velocity. This role has production support responsibilities and is often called upon to support a wide variety of issues.

As the primary conduit between your employees and upper leadership, your role in communicating and modeling the values and guiding principles of our company culture is of vital importance. All members of IT Management should strive to consciously and consistently foster a culture of engagement, trust, and “open door” communication. 

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

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