Senior Platform Engineer (Remote)

About the Role

As Senior Platform Engineer, you will be critical in designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure and services that power Kohl's applications.

What You'll Do

• Drive the development, design, testing, deployments and iterative improvement of platform capabilities, features, and APIs in collaboration with designers, product managers, end-users and other engineers on the platform team
• Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data, end-user feedback and industry best practices to achieve desired business outcomes
• Develop and integrate high-quality platform services that are secure, simple to use, easy to operate, difficult to break, fully integrated and extremely observable with measurable results
• Take responsibility for all technical aspects of the platform services lifecycle, including code, infrastructure, data, security, CICD, support and easy-to-read documentation
• Establish platform engineering and software standards
• Continuously develop and demonstrate a strong knowledge of new technologies, modern application architecture and industry best practices
• Mentor and assist engineers while evangelizing best practices
• Create scalable, reliable, secure platforms supporting Kohl's growing business needs
• Streamline development processes, improve system performance and ensure the high availability of services
• Leverage a deep understanding of cloud technologies, automation tools and infrastructure-as-code practices to build and manage complex systems
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines, enhancing monitoring and logging frameworks and contributing to Kohl's platform's overall architecture and technical strategy
• Additional tasks may be assigned

• In-depth experience deploying, configuring, migrating and supporting common stateful distributed systems, messaging, or database technologies such as Kafka, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc.
• Experience consuming common stateful distributed systems, messaging, or database technologies using languages like Java, Python, or Go

• Experience in full-stack development
• In-depth experience with Javascript or Typescript, Node.js, or React with Material UI or similar framework
• Experience developing 12 Factor cloud-native applications

• Experience with object-oriented development using Java, Go or Python
• Experience with Kubernetes and major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Passion for turning complex distributed systems into highly available, fully integrated, and easy-to-use products for developers
• Experience in software development and cloud computing, including cloud resource management and security
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies or techniques quickly
• Open-minded approaches to problem-solving centered around the needs of the customer

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
• 4+ years of experience in software or infrastructure platform development
• Knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture and testing strategies
• In-depth knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development
• Knowledge and experience working with platform as code and GitOps methodologies
• Involvement with and contribution to open source projects