Starbucks
engineer sr (Java Springboot)- Hybrid, Seattle WA
2200 Utah Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98134
Hybrid
First seen by offpeak October 7, 2026
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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.
This job contributes to Starbucks success by delivering high-quality, reliable, and stable technologies and
security capabilities in support of the Starbucks Engineering Platform. This position is accountable for the
installation, configuration, monitoring, analysis, maintenance, and technical support of the platform.
Models and acts in accordance with Starbucks guiding principles.
Summary of Key Responsibilities
- Communicates highly complex ideas and concepts to non-technical peers and customers
- Ability to establish cross-functional, collaborative relationships with business and technology partners
- Support the development team and perform activities to resolve developer issues in a timely and accurate
fashion - Engineer build and release processes
- Ability to effectively manage and partner with technology vendors to deliver against business objectives
- Conducts research and makes recommendations on standards, products, and services
- Ensures application and infrastructure architectural solutions are stable, secure, and compliant with Company
standards and practices - Implements all technologies in accordance with Information Security's guiding principles for highly sensitive
data - Provide high-availability operational support and automate solutions across the environment
- Implements deep telemetry capabilities to provide ongoing success and performance metrics
- Implements service monitoring across all platforms to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity
of critical systems - Upholds company policies, and legal/regulatory requirements, such as PCI
- Implements and maintains system configurations and baselines to support secure application development
software control best practices and standards
Basic Qualifications
- Education (minimum education level, degree or certification necessary):
- 4-8 years of professional industry experience with software development
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
Preferred Qualifications
- Skills (minimum skills required):
- 5 years of experience in system administration, network administration, and systems engineering
- 5 years of experience in one or more of the following languages: C, C , Java, Python
- 3 years of experience with NoSQL and SQL databases
- 3 years Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
- Demonstrated ability to debug and optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
- Interest in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Proven ability to translate insights into business recommendations
- Knowledge in application development and supporting a development environment
- Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine)
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant legal and regulatory requirements, such as SOX, PCI, HIPAA, Data
Protection, etc. - Demonstrated experience implementing and managing high capacity, redundant, and mission critical
environments - Knowledge in databases and comfortable with various databases technologies
- Proficiency in TCP/IP networking, architecture and core technologies (DNS, routing, iptables, tc, etc.)
- Experience running and maintaining a 24x7 production environment