Senior Principal Engineer - Platform And SRE

Summary

Set technical direction for Nordstrom's cloud platform, CI/CD, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), shaping architecture and engineering practices across the organization. Lead investments in autonomous deployments, runtime scaling, multi-region resilience, and reliability systems while balancing customer needs, operational effectiveness, and cost.

Responsibilities

• Own the long-term architecture and design principles for cloud platforms, CI/CD, and SRE.
• Identify and resolve cross-team platform challenges, and align reliability targets with business capabilities.
• Drive standards through pipeline enforcement, production validation, and design reviews.
• Guide technical decisions during significant incidents and turn lessons learned into platform improvements.
• Mentor senior engineers, influence hiring, and represent platform engineering externally.
• Assess emerging technologies and make adoption decisions based on demonstrated production value.

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional software or infrastructure engineering experience and a bachelor's or master's degree in a related field.
• Deep architectural experience with large-scale cloud platforms, Kubernetes, multi-account estates, and shared services.
• Enterprise-scale continuous delivery, software supply chain security, SRE practices, and production resilience experience.
• Experience engineering for predictable traffic peaks, including capacity forecasting, load testing, and chaos exercises.
• Strong technical judgment, cross-team influence, communication, and mentorship skills.
• Available to work at the Seattle corporate headquarters at least four days per week.