Senior Engineer 2, Inventory Platform

Nordstrom

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Work type: On-site
Location: Seattle
Salary: $166,000–$258,000 / yr
Posted: 1 day ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $212k

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This role pays more than 79% of similar roles. Most pay $142,400–$195,110 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $212k versus about $169k for comparable roles.

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About Nordstrom

Nordstrom is a leading American luxury department store chain offering a wide selection of clothing, shoes, accessories, and beauty products through its stores, Nordstrom Rack outlets, and online. Industry: Luxury Department Store Retail

Nordstrom currently has 30 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $142,000–$220,500 across 30 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer 2, Inventory Platform

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As a Senior Engineer 2 on Nordstrom's Enterprise Inventory Technology team, you will work across the full stack to design and build high-throughput event processing systems and data infrastructure that ensure real-time inventory accuracy and visibility. Your responsibilities include contributing to platform reliability through observability practices, building operational dashboards for business users, and developing AI agents that automate stages of the software development lifecycle and deliver actionable insights in real time. You will also mentor junior engineers and partner with product management to translate complex inventory domain problems into technical solutions. The role requires 5+ years of full-stack experience, proficiency in Java and Spring ecosystem, expertise in event-driven architectures like Apache Kafka, and hands-on experience with large language models or agentic AI frameworks. Knowledge of AWS cloud platforms and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines are also beneficial.

Skills

Java Spring Boot Spring Framework Spring Data Apache Kafka AWS SQL NoSQL AI LLMs DevOps CI/CD Terraform OpenSearch Pinecone LangGraph AWS Bedrock Agents RAG Vector Databases

What you'll do

Design and maintain high-throughput services for inventory state using event streaming platforms and databases.
Evolve data architecture to ensure near-real-time inventory accuracy across various systems.
Build operational dashboards and tools to provide real-time inventory insights to business teams.
Develop AI agents that automate stages of the software development lifecycle, enhancing delivery velocity.
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical growth within the team.

What we're looking for

5+ years of professional software engineering experience with full-stack development.
Strong proficiency in Java and Spring ecosystem for building production-grade microservices.
Expertise in event-driven architectures and streaming platforms like Apache Kafka.
Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL data stores, including consistency tradeoffs.
Experience building and operating production services on AWS or similar cloud platforms.
Demonstrated experience with large language models and agentic AI frameworks.

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