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Position Purpose:
The Senior Software Engineer in Reliability Engineering (RE) is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining automated monitoring solutions, enterprise workload orchestrations, and proactive reliability systems that safeguard critical retail and supply chain operations. In this role, you will lead initiatives to eliminate operational toil through code, migrate legacy systems to scalable script-based platforms, and build centralized health dashboards/establish robust onboarding standards with application development teams. You will streamline alerting pipelines using modern observability and incident management tools (e.g., PagerDuty, Grafana, custom APIs), manage and optimize enterprise batch execution flows across scheduling platforms such as CA7, Maestro (HCL/TWS), and Rundeck, and drive modernization and decommissioning of redundant legacy monitoring platforms in favor of maintainable, script-driven automation. A Senior Software Engineer is also responsible for mentoring junior engineers and contractors on automation scripting, workflow scheduling, and troubleshooting practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- 50% Delivery and Execution - Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide; Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens
- 20% Learns and Grows - Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems; Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
- 20% Plans and Aligns - Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are valuable, developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
- 10% Supports and Enables - Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- This position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager
- This position has 0 Direct Reports
Travel Requirements:
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 4+ years of professional software engineering, SRE, DevOps, or system automation experience in an enterprise environment.
- Strong proficiency in scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash/Shell, Java, Go, or Groovy).
- Experience developing API integrations and automating operational health dashboards and CLI utilities.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise workload automation and job schedulers (e.g., Rundeck, CA7, Maestro / HCL Workload Automation, AutoSys, or Control-M).
- Proven experience migrating, re-architecting, or modernizing batch job flows and dependency chains.
- In-depth experience configuring alerting, escalation policies, and incident response integrations (e.g., PagerDuty, Slack/Teams webhooks).
- Experience with telemetry, log aggregation, and dashboarding tools (e.g., Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
- Familiarity with retail supply chain operations, warehouse management, or Distribution Center (DC) operational systems.
- Experience leveraging AI coding assistants, agentic workflows, or AIOps tooling to improve operational diagnostics and team productivity.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or modern containerization platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).
Minimum Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Preferred Education:
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- No additional years of experience
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Competencies:
- Global Perspective
- Manages Ambiguity
- Nimble Learning
- Self-Development
- Collaborates
- Cultivates Innovation
- Situational Adaptability
- Communicates Effectively
- Drives Results
- Interpersonal Savvy