engineer lead, SRE - ST
Core
Lead the reliability, availability, and performance of critical Starbucks technology platforms, building and developing the SRE team to ensure systems are resilient, scalable, and ready for peak demand.
Role type
Senior IC SRE Engineering Lead
Builds
Reliable, scalable, and secure technology platforms for Starbucks
Domain
Retail / Cloud Infrastructure
Required skills
Team leadership, system reliability engineering, automation, observability, cloud architecture, incident management, capacity planning, disaster recovery, networking fundamentals, distributed systems design
Preferred skills
Distributed systems at scale, AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, container orchestration, cloud-native architectures, SLIs/SLOs/Error Budgets, Chaos Testing, Performance Engineering, Datadog/Splunk/Grafana/New Relic/Dynatrace/OpenTelemetry, Python/Go/Java/PowerShell/Bash, Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi, CI/CD
Technologies
AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, New Relic, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, Python, Go, Java, PowerShell, Bash
Responsibilities
Drive system availability, performance, resilience, and operational readiness; Automate operations, strengthen observability, and reduce recurring issues; Build the SRE team and establish standards for incident management, SLOs, capacity, and recovery
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership