We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer 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

• Participate in the creation and presentation of technical designs


• Lead in the delivery of complex solutions


• Active participant in planning activities. Contributes to strategic planning


• Anticipates technical issues at the product level and makes architectural and design decisions to avoid them


• Leads and effectively manages the triage complex issues across systems in both production and locally


• Demonstrates creativity and takes initiative in solving complex problems


• Consistently delivers a high volume of story points relative to their team


• Able to fill in holes in product direction and take the appropriate action within their team


• Plans delivery of coarse-grained business needs spanning multiple applications


• Influence technical peers outside the team or project in some areas. Such as introducing new frameworks and patterns through their work


• Makes others better through code reviews, thorough documentation, technical guidance, and mentoring or serving as a Tech Lead on a project


• Sets a consistent example of agile development practices and coaches other engineers to work as a team with Product and UX


• Able to fill in holes in product direction and take the appropriate action within their team


• Works independently under project objectives

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


• 3 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


• 5 or more years of relevant professional experience


• 3 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


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


• 3 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