Nike Principal Software Engineer - Tech Modernization 

United States, Oregon, Beaverton 

937928163

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Lead the technical analysis, evaluation, and divestiture planning of existing costly, duplicative, and bespoke technology solutions; this will involve engaging, collaborating and partnering with the teams who build and maintain Nike's production systems and services
• Lead the technical strategy, system design, and implementation of efficient, reusable, secure, and resilient technology solutions to replace existing deprecated software in direct support of Nike’s multi-year simplification and modernization journey
• Lead the hand-on software engineering and coding tasks aligned to multi-year platform roadmaps, Global Technology standards, and modern industry trends
• Drive continuous transformational changes to accelerate Nike’s technical maturity innovation, experimentation, standards, best practices, and developer productivity, and to promote a rich platform engineering culture on par with best-in-class industry norms
• In addition, you will also enable cross-team collaboration across software engineering teams by growing and supporting the culture of communities of practices (COPs) for specialized multi-disciplinary technical areas, including Observability, API, Data, AI/ML, Kubernetes, DevOps, Cloud, Pipeline, Disaster Recovery, OpenSource, etc.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or similar field or relevant professional experience, education, and training
• 10+ years software engineering experience as an individual contributor developing custom software using common languages including but not limited to Java, Go, and JavaScript
• 5+ years in a principal/lead engineering role responsible for system design decisions and direct technical leadership over engineering teams focused on delivering enterprise scale systems
• 5+ years professional experience with Cloud Native technologies on platforms like AWS or other major cloud providers; proven experience in tackling cloud challenges around clustering, end-to-end service design, resiliency, reliability, streaming, high-availability / disaster recovery (HA/DR) and complex distributed systems
• 3+ years professional experience with container runtimes, such as Kubernetes, deployment tools like Terraform, and configuration management solutions like Ansible
• Experience leading and delivering multiple complex transformations and software migrations
• Deep foundational knowledge of software engineering practices, particularly on distributed systems and cloud native architectures

“Soft” Skills include:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, feeling as comfortable addressing executives as the software engineering team
• High emotional intelligence with the ability to bring diverse groups together to tackle common goals
• Highly passionate about delivery, being comfortable with both providing technical direction as well as being a contributing member of the team
• Thinks long-term and holistically, and takes ownership of ambiguous problems to drive results