engineering manager (Platform Engineering) - ST; Seattle, WA

Starbucks Technologist Engineering Manager

At Starbucks, our mission is to inspire and nurture the human spirit one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time. Starbucks Technologists work to achieve this mission through the use of cutting-edge technology delivered to our partners, customers, stores, roasters, and global communities. The Engineering Manager for our Cloud Foundation Services team, within the Global eXperience Technology organization, contributes to Starbucks success by leading our team of platform engineers to support our Cloud Foundation Services Tenant Engagement and Observability team. Responsible for delivering high-quality, reliable, and scalable technology & observability solutions that support the platform. The successful candidate is someone who enjoys bringing definition to complex technology initiatives, is skilled at navigating ambiguous new frontiers and is an expert at bringing technology and business value to the fore.

Summary of Key Responsibilities

• Identifies and communicates key responsibilities and practices to ensure the immediate team of direct reports promotes a successful attitude, confidence in leadership, and teamwork to achieve business results.
• Develop and implement engineering solutions to improve efficiencies, increase capacity and reduce costs.
• Integrates engineering principles and resolves technical obstacles for specific engineering projects.
• Applies logic in problem-solving and analysis of alternatives to assess the financial and operations impact of business initiatives. Leverages critical information to make effective recommendations and decisions.
• Provides coaching and mentoring to engineering partners.
• Ability to establish cross-functional, collaborative relationships with business and technology partners.
• Communicates highly complex ideas and concepts to non-technical peers and customers.
• Support the development team and perform activities to resolve developer issues in a timely and accurate fashion.
• Ensures application and infrastructure architectural solutions are stable, secure, and compliant with Company standards and practices.
• Partnering with external vendors to support the tools we use.

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

As a Starbucks partner, you (and your family) will have access to medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits. Partners have access to short-term and long-term disability, paid parental leave, family expansion reimbursement, paid vacation from date of hire

Join us and inspire with every cup. Apply today! Starbucks Coffee Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances. Starbucks Coffee Company is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at applicantaccommodation@starbucks.com or 1(888) 611-2258.