Senior Principal Engineer - Platform and SRE (Hybrid - Seattle)

Seattle, WA💼 Full-time💰 $200,500–$200,500🗓 2026-09-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Strategic technical consultant shaping enterprise-wide architecture, CI/CD, and SRE practices for Nordstrom's cloud platform and reliability bar.

Role type

Senior Principal Engineer (Platform and SRE)

Builds

Autonomous cloud platform, CI/CD pipelines, reliability tooling, and production validation gating.

Domain

Retail E-commerce / Cloud Infrastructure / SRE

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Large-scale cloud architecture, Kubernetes, continuous delivery, software supply chain security, SRE practices, resilience patterns, cost optimization, technical leadership, cross-team influence.

Preferred skills

AI for operations, organizational design in engineering.

Technologies

Kubernetes, Cloud Platforms, Service Mesh, CI/CD tools.

Responsibilities

Define north star architecture for cloud platform and SRE; identify platform limits before incidents; attach reliability targets to business capabilities; drive consensus on technical direction; guide design reviews; identify and adopt industry trends; act as technical decision maker during incidents; mentor senior engineers.

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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About nordstrom

Nordstrom is a fashion specialty retailer founded on a simple idea: offer each customer the best possible service, quality, value and selection. At Nordstrom, providing great customer service goes beyond the selling floor. It takes a team of individuals with different talents and skills to continuously improve services and processes serving our customer. Our Technologies division works in partnership with other areas of the Company to develop and support the business systems used throughout Nordstrom.