Senior Principal Engineer, Platform and SRE

Nordstrom

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: $200,500–$332,000 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $266k

$129k most similar roles pay here $354k

This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $159,000–$223,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $266k versus about $191k 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 33 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $142,000–$220,500 across 32 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Principal Engineer, Platform and SRE

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Senior Principal Engineer - Platform and SRE serves as a strategic technical consultant to evolve the reliability and delivery standards for the cloud platform and CI/CD systems. This individual contributor role involves defining long-term architecture, establishing design principles, and managing complex problems that span multiple teams. The candidate will build automated deployment platforms, production validation gating, load and chaos harnesses, and multi-region infrastructure. Key technical requirements include extensive experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, service meshes, and software supply chain security including artifact signing and policy enforcement. The role requires expertise in SRE practices such as SLOs, error budgets, and incident command within a high-traffic retail environment. Essential skills include advanced knowledge of canary analysis, infrastructure scaling, and cost-effective architecture to ensure system stability while managing the technical trade-offs inherent in large-scale e-commerce operations.

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Skills

Kubernetes CI/CD SRE Service Mesh Software Supply Chain Security Observability

What you'll do

Define the long-term "north star" architecture for cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and SRE practices.
Establish design principles that enable engineering teams to make sound technical decisions independently.
Identify and resolve complex problems that sit between teams or lack clear ownership.
Drive consensus on technical direction across Platform, SRE, Security, and product engineering teams.
Enforce reliability standards through automated pipeline gates and production validation processes.
Lead technical decision-making during major incidents to turn lessons learned into platform defaults.
Mentor senior engineers and promote high-level technical debate across the organization.
Evaluate industry trends to determine which emerging technologies Nordstrom should adopt or skip.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
15+ years of professional software or infrastructure engineering experience.
Hands-on architectural experience with large-scale cloud platforms and containerized workloads on Kubernetes.
Experience with enterprise-scale continuous delivery, including canary analysis, immutable artifacts, and configuration as versioned deployment.
Expertise in software supply chain security, including build provenance, artifact signing, and policy enforcement.
Proven track record establishing SRE practices, including SLOs, error budgets, observability standards, and incident command.
Experience with resilience architecture, such as cell-based patterns, multi-region configurations, and data consistency under concurrent writes.
Experience engineering for high-traffic retail or e-commerce environments involving capacity forecasting and chaos exercises.

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