Office Depot is a brand you've counted on since 1986 for your office supplies and business services, supported by a strong retail network andworld-class technology platforms. As the business landscape continues to evolve, we are changing the way we look at our technology platforms todrive significant change in the way we do business. We're reinventing ourselves and makingsignificant investmentsin our multi-billion-dollar digital platforms to drive growth in our range of B2B products & services. Apply today to be a part of this revolutionary change!
As aPrincipalSDE, you will be an integral team member of our innovative Product & Technology organization,contributing greatlyto thispivotal transformation in the B2B space.
What You’ll Do
This position requires a seasoned and visionarypersonto help us reinvent our core business and drive the execution of our end-to-end technology solutions. In this role, you will create and innovate multi-disciplinary technical and functional solutions to unprecedented problems and devise solutions for the most complex and highest risk business situations.
1. Create innovative, multi-disciplinary technical/ functional solutions to unprecedented problems and devise solutions for the most complex and highest risk business situations.
2. Serve as a credible expert advisor to executives on the use of current and future technologies for optimal impact on current and future business strategies and results.
3. Advise functional leaders and executives as the company’s highest-level resource for making strategic investments in applications, databases, technologies, systems, programs, or processes.
4. Act on own initiative and awareness of market conditions and technical innovations to provide solutions to problems before they occur.
5. Perform as company’s highest-level expert in 2-3 IT disciplines, platforms, technology, systems, or processes.
6. Primary influenceleaders inthe highest levels of the organization on projects and initiatives directly affecting enterprise revenue and profitability.
7. Maintains detailed knowledge of current best practices and emerging trends within the technical architecture and application development arenas. Maintains awareness and understanding of relevant emerging technologies.
8. Primary responsibility for creating or expanding relationships with major vendors, suppliers, regulators, or other critical external organizations.
9. Understands and is proficient with company procedures for documenting new initiatives with complex business cases and detailed ROI models to gain IT, Business Unit and Executive Committee agreement and approval to proceed.
10. Perform as the company’s highest-level expert infouror more IT disciplines, platforms, technology, systems, or processes.
Requirements
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Bachelor’s Degreein Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related Engineering disciplines.
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15+years of relevant experiencein designing, developing, and deploying large scale systems on multiple platforms.
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Proven experience solving complex problems in a multi-platform systems environment.
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Ability to conceive, design, and create new tools, products, or processes in a deep specialty or as an expert integrator of systems to meet business needs.
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Polished communication skills, collaboration skills, presentation skills and technical leadership skills.
Strong experience withthe following technologies:
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Kubernetes (OnPrem and in the cloud) and Docker. Work with Kubernetes ingress controllers, Nginx,Traefik, Kong, Envoy preferred.
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API Gateways and service meshes
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Building a large family of APIs, circuit breaking, gradual degradation, with log aggregations, and monitoring
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Cloud computing, including basic compute, load balancing, elastic scaling, monitoring, data stores, and security
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Public clouds such as AWS, GCP, Azure
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OnPrem infrastructure – compute, load balancing, network security
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Container orchestration, building resilient scalable systems
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Programming languages:Java (required), Golang (preferred), Node.js(a plus), Python (a plus)
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Modern User facing applications, with experience in React.js
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Bash, Ansible and Terraform
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Java micro frameworks –Vert.x,Quarkus, Micronaut.
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JDK version 8+
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SQL and NoSQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL, MySQL, Couchbase, MongoDB, DynamoDB
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Implementing solutions withElasticSearch,Solr, Vespa.
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Event streaming using Apache Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub etc.
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Multiple CI/CD tools.
A solid command of these skills will allow you to be successful in this role:
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Analytical Skills: demands superior analytical skills; must be analytically capable of refining strategic, technical roadmaps and synthesizing to make improvements and recommendations. Relies on scientific findings in decision making, establishes relevant KPIs and routinely tracks them.
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Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills; regularly required to make presentations to stakeholders, and must clearly present, articulate, and defend research findings, design decisions, and formulated strategies to the stakeholders in a way that they can relate to and easily understand.
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Interpersonal/People Skills: Ability to facilitate smooth collaboration and relations necessary to be successful in this role; not troubled by complications, disagreements, and unnecessary delays. Ability to build trust among team members and convince people to follow him/her. Effective presentation skills. Exceptional relationship-building skillsrequired.
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Leadership Qualities: Ability to continuously drive results, display a high level of confidence not just in self but in other people as well, inspire and motivate team performance. Demonstrate an ability to navigate complex situations and tasks with calmness and composure, setting an example for others. Ability to identify, attract, and develop team talent.
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Application Architecture Skills: Ability to architect and lead detailed design for a high volume B2B electronic retail platform. Provide overall technical leadership to multiple teams involved, achieve consensus and help resolve technical conflicts. Assist in all aspects of SDLC (including greenfield development, and rearchitecting the existing solutions) – build, deploy, troubleshoot, maintain etc.
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Hands-On and Deep-Dive Skills: Provide hands-on support in implementing critical components across the entire stack, from front-end, middle-tier, back-end, infrastructure and data stores to automation and scale. Provide expertise in at least two major public clouds, with the ability tocompare and contrasttheir offerings. Should not shy away from hands on development, integration, deployment, testing and troubleshooting tasks based on severity of the issue.
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Deep Understanding of Systems Limitations: Must have a solid understanding of network latency, topology and scale issues with the ability to design software and systems around them. Build for cloud native, favor open source. Consider all aspects of systems implementation – coding, deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, testing (performance, integration, unit), improvement, technical debt, scale, cost, and security.
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Mentorship skills: Present solutions to large groups of technical staff. Maintain appropriate level of technical documentation. Evangelize best practices and processes, mentor other engineers, evaluate and recommend technologies to the teams. Foster collaboration.
Pay, Benefits & Work Schedule
Office Depot offers competitive salaries, a benefits packageincludinga 401(k)andplenty of opportunitiesto move and grow within our organization!
Equal Employment Opportunity
Office Depot is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all employment practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, age, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation,or any other characteristic protected byfederal, state,or locallaw.
Fair Chance Ordinance
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction recordsin alignment with theCity & County of San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.