engineer senior, SRE - ST
Core
Ensure reliability, availability, and performance of critical Starbucks technology platforms through automation, observability, and incident response.
Role type
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Builds
Resilient, scalable, and secure technology platforms for Starbucks
Domain
Retail / Cloud Infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems design, Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, Docker, Container orchestration, Cloud-native architectures, Reliability engineering principles (SLOs, SLIs, Error Budgets), Observability tools (Datadog, Splunk, Grafana), Automation scripting (Python, Go, Java, Bash), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, Networking fundamentals
Preferred skills
Chaos Testing, Disaster Recovery, Performance Engineering, On-call rotation leadership, Blameless post-incident reviews
Technologies
AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, New Relic, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, Python, Go, Java, PowerShell, Bash
Responsibilities
Design and build for system availability, performance, and resilience; Automate operations to reduce toil; Lead incident response and blameless post-incident reviews; Mentor engineers on SRE best practices
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC