We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join Best Buy's Enterprise Data Platform engineering team. This team is responsible for delivering the platform and tooling that supports reporting, analysis, and machine learning initiatives throughout Best Buy. Engineers on the Enterprise Data Platform team design and build scalable, high-performing data streaming systems that can stand up to peak holiday load. We build solutions that require advanced thinking in challenging disciplines like event sourcing, stream processing, and distributed systems.

This is a hands-on engineer position. The individual in this role will be involved throughout the development lifecycle for the Enterprise Data Platform with the primary responsibility of developing web-scale applications and services along with appropriate automation tooling in support of the platform.

This role is accompanied by career rewarding challenges by the very nature of the platform. The individual in this role will be given the opportunity to deliver solutions in a highly distributed, highly critical environment by leveraging data streaming and big data technologies.

Role Responsibilities and Expectations

• Understands and makes well-reasoned design decisions and trade-offs


• Understands the architecture around the core systems they are responsible for


• Active participant in planning activities


• Can triage complex issues independently in both production and locally


• Requires minimal direction and/or oversight


• Plans and executes delivery of coarse-grained features/capabilities


• Understands the business supported by their code


• Identifies problems and/or risks of their own work and the work of others


• Consistently helps new hires and junior engineers to grow professionally and become more proficient over time


• Communicates technical decisions through design docs, tech talks, and the wiki


• Works independently on small to medium size efforts within a team or project

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent combination of education and/or experience.


• 2 or more years of experience with Java, Groovy, or any other JVM-based programming language.

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field


• 3 or more years of relevant professional experience


• 2 or more years of experience with Google Cloud Platform or any other managed cloud environment.


• 3 or more years of experience with BigQuery or any other NoSQL database technologies


• 2 or more years of experience with Cloud Pub/Sub or any other streaming messaging system


• 2 or more years of experience with Apache Beam or any other streaming data processing system


• Any level of experience contributing to open-source software projects


• Any level of experience with JIRA or any other issue tracking technology


• Any level of experience working in an Agile environment