Site Reliability Engineer - Data Analytics

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.

Data Engineers are responsible for developing and operationalizing data pipelines/integrations to make data available for consumption  (i.e. Reporting, Data Science/Machine Learning, Data APIs, etc.). This includes data ingestion, data transformation, data validation/quality, data pipeline optimization, orchestration; and deploying code to production via CI/CD. The Data Engineer role requires knowledge of software development/programming methodologies, various data sources (Relational Databases, flat files (csv, delimited), APIs, XML, JSON, etc.), data access (SQL, Python, etc.), followed by expertise in data modeling, cloud architectures/platforms, data warehousing, and data lakes. This role also will partner closely with Product Owners, Data Architects, Platform/DevOps Engineers, etc. to design, build, test, implement and maintain data pipelines.

This position serves as a Data Engineer and subject matter expert. The role works directly with managers, architects, engineers and developers -- providing hands-on technical cloud solutions. The position requires hands-on technical design and implementation of data applications like PowerBI, cognos, Alteryx, BW, BODS, where scape and IICS environments. . This position will bring real world Microsoft PowerBI engineering and solution experience and will function as part of a highly skilled, agile development and data team supporting major data and analytics programs.

Engineers have deep knowledge and hands-on experience in enterprise-wide platforms, and solve technical problems while working on technology initiatives. Engineers will be required to be available for 24x7 support as needed and be on call on a rotational basis. Engineers have strong architectural, leadership, and technical skills. Engineers should have high-level skills in PowerBI, Databricks, Azure, Alteryx, UC4, and Webi. System administration, monitoring experience and observability is a plus. Engineers interact in a highly effective manner with other team members and management, drive innovation, and influence delivery and performance.

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will be responsible for maintaining and improving the availability, performance, and capacity of Data Analytics Engineering Operations Problem and Incident Resolution Support. The SRE will translate Costco’s goals and strategies for system availability, performance, and capacity into designs and plans for technical solutions. The SRE will work with other Costco teams to resolve issues affecting the availability, performance, or capacity of Data Analytics Engineering Operations Problem and Incident Resolution Support.

The SRE will also work with other Costco teams to identify upcoming events that could affect demand on system performance and prepare mitigation plans. The SRE will work with teams and System Architects to implement, maintain, and validate disaster recovery plans and other solutions to avoid or mitigate service interruptions. 

The SRE will monitor the availability, performance, and capacity of Data Analytics Engineering Operations Problem and Incident Resolution Support to identify trends and concerns. Create and disseminate system reliability reports to Costco management in support of planning and decision making. The SRE will also assist in the development of policies, standards, and guidelines for the maintenance and operation of Costco’s