Principal Engineer, Store/Digital

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Job Summary

The Principal Engineer is responsible for leading a product team and contributing to software design, development, and overall product lifecycle for a product that our customers love. In addition to pairing with other engineers and architects, principal engineers field questions from other product teams and encourage cross-team collaboration. They also play an active role working with third party vendors and with open-source software community. They create foundational code elements that can be reused. They define software level objectives for products. You will be an extremely knowledgeable engineer on the product team and are expected to build and grow the skillsets of the more junior engineers. You are action oriented, taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm. You consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances. There is also an expectation that the Principal Engineer will demonstrate expertise in modern software design and development.

Duties and Responsibilities

70% - Delivery and Execution:  

• Build rapid prototypes to explore viability of solutions fit to product strategy and upon alignment from stakeholders scale the solution and productionize it   

• Identifies, implements, and shares technical solutions that can be used across the organization  

• Identifies unsecured code areas and implements fixes as they are discovered  

• Identifies product enhancements (client-facing or technical) to create a better experience for the end users  

• Collaborates with Enterprise Architects and with Chief Architecture Owners and creates meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for security reviews or other interested parties  

• Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, or engineering empowerment  

• Defines service level objectives for product to constantly measure their reliability in production and help prioritize backlog work   

• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases  

• Writes custom code or scripts to do “destructive testing” to ensure adequate resiliency in production  

• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively   

• Identifies product enhancements (customer-facing or technical) to create a better experience for the end users  

• Creates meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for security reviews or other interested parties   

20% - Support and Enablement:  

• Field questions from other product teams or support teams   

• Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams   

• Provides application support for software running in production   

• Proactively monitors production and lower life cycle environments service level objectives for products   

• Works with vendors and open source community to help identify and implement feature enhancements in software products  

• Works with other product teams to create API specifications and contracts for shared data   

• Proactively reviews the performance and capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing   

• Triages high priority issues and outages as they arise   

• Conducts technical interviews of job applicants and contractors to evaluate their skills   

10% - Learning:  

• Participates in and leads learning activities around modern software design and development  

• Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations   

• Attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies where appropriate 

Everybody loves pizza, which means they also love the people who are behind the scenes working to deliver it. This is complex and challenging work – but let’s face it – it’s also pizza! If you want a fulfilling career with a company that’s always moving forward, we’re the right place.

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