Principal Engineer - Inventory Visibility - Hybrid - Seattle

Job Description

Nordstrom, a leading fashion retailer, is seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer to join our inventory technology team.  Inventory is Nordstrom’s biggest investment and the productive use of it is critical to the company’s success. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building platforms to provide Inventory Visibility to Enterprise for both Operational and Analytical use cases. This space requires ingenuity on integrating with different type of data sources to build real time inventory picture with explainability of inventory movement, and audit capabilities. If you enjoy leading engineers through solving hard problems using a wide range of software disciplines such as data engineering, framework development, and enterprise level architecture, this job is for you. 

A day in the life... 

• Architect and develop complex systems at scale that meet SLA’s, KPIS and engineering standards 

• Collaborate and influence Sr. technology and business leaders to recommend solutions and articulate trade-off’s 

• Lead engineers across multiple teams through projects by providing guidance on software design and development 

• Develop architecture diagrams and write great code 

• Diagnose and remedy performance or security issues  

• Demonstrates expertise in industry standards for secure development practices 

• Expertise with telemetry solutions and products available in the industry 

• Contributes to open source, community projects and engineering standards 

• Help acquire and retain top engineering talent 

You own this if you … 

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience 

• Highly skilled at applying architectural patterns to express complex scalable systems that optimize for simplicity, operational support and implementation velocity 

• Experienced with developing data science enabled solutions using big data and traditional software skills  

• Highly proficient with Java and Python 

• Experience with Agile methodologies with a continuous improvement and quality mindset 

• DevOps experience with track record of improving time to recovery and mitigating failures 

• Highly experienced with various CI/CD process and tools GitLab, Containerization technologies 

• Track record of designing and developing services and application with enterprise grade security to protect sensitive data from threats 

• Highly experienced with mentoring and coaching engineers 

• Highly experienced with either AWS or GCP and some experience with one other cloud platform 

• Track record of architecting and solving complex engineering problems at scale with outstanding business and technology results  

• Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field 

If you are a seasoned software engineer passionate about leveraging data science to optimize inventory positioning in the dynamic world of fashion retail, we invite you to apply and contribute to the success of Nordstrom. Join us in shaping the future of technology in the retail industry! 

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We’ve got you covered…

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

A few more important points...

The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities and qualifications for this job.

Nordstrom will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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