Grainger is looking to elevate developer experience across the organization by driving architectural decisions, evolving platform tooling, and leading high-impact engagements to enhance system resilience, scalability, and developer productivity.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience with software engineering in a large and distributed environment working across multiple teams.
- Cloud exposure (AWS / GCP / Azure) from the UI, API and CLI.
- Experience implementing infrastructure as code and automation.
- Knowledge of cloud-native event-driven microservices-based architectures including operational concerns such as performance, resiliency, observability, monitoring, discovery, and routing. (Kafka / AWS SQS)
- Experience with CI/CD principles and industry best practices to help drive the organizational culture and raise the bar on software delivery
- Good understanding of building and operationalizing containerized workloads at scale (Docker / Kubernetes), APIs, and web services.
- Experience using observability, monitoring and alerting frameworks and tooling (OTEL, DataDog / Dynatrace / Splunk)
Responsibilities
- Engage with Product Engineers and engineers across the organization to deeply understand how we can achieve a frictionless and joyful experience that drives systemic change in Grainger’s ability to deliver.
- Build partnerships with other shared services organizations such as SRE and Security to understand friction points across the organization.
- Collaborate with the Engineering Enablement Team to design and deliver impactful consulting sessions and immersive 'dojo' experiences that empower product engineering teams.
- Partner in AI Enablement, understand challenges faced by product teams and how AI can be a tool towards solving those challenges.
- Serve as a subject matter expert by providing hands-on development support during embedded engineering engagements, guiding product teams through all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Partner with the Delivery Insights Team to generate impactful insights that enhance engineering excellence and provide data-driven enablement strategies.
- Collaborate with the Core Engineering Team to advance our Internal Developer Portal (IDP), evolve our software templates, and drive the adoption of our shared workflows.
Other
- Work Location Type: Hybrid
- Demonstrated engineering empathy with a passion for pair programming, effectively supporting engineers at all skill levels by meeting them where they are in their learning journey.
- Experience as a full stack engineer with emphasis on Java, React and NextJS
- Knowledge of common DevOps tools such as Ansible, GitHub, Terraform, etc.
- Experience with Atlassian products such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo.
