Senior Software Engineer: PDLC

Nordstrom

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$142,000–$220,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $176k
This role $181k
$106k most similar roles pay here $248k

This role pays more than 66% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$202,120 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $181k versus about $176k 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 40 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $142,000–$220,500 across 23 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer: PDLC

Senior Software Engineer: PDLC joins the AI Agentic Solutions team to design and build end-to-end agentic solutions across commerce, personalization, inventory, and customer service. This role involves translating ambiguous problems into technical requirements, managing tool-use pipelines, and implementing context engineering to balance token economics with decision quality. The engineer will develop evaluation frameworks, safety guardrails, and memory management systems for agents while mentoring junior staff and leading code reviews. Key technologies include Python, LLM APIs from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic, RAG architectures, vector stores, and agentic frameworks such as LangGraph or CrewAI. The role addresses the challenge of integrating autonomous AI agents into production environments to improve retail operations. Candidates must possess experience in distributed systems, cloud-native development on AWS or GCP, and a deep understanding of multi-agent orchestration patterns and prompt engineering.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $202800 from 341 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Translate ambiguous business problems into end-to-end agentic AI solutions with clear success criteria and measurable outcomes.
  • Design and build core agentic systems including orchestration, tool-use pipelines, and integration with enterprise systems.
  • Apply context engineering to optimize RAG patterns, structured retrieval, and dynamic prompt assembly while balancing cost and latency.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks and safety guardrails to ensure AI solutions are reliable, accurate, and secure in production.
  • Architect memory and state management systems to enable agents to reason across sessions and complex workflows.
  • Manage technical trade-offs between short-term delivery needs and long-term scalability regarding infrastructure, models, and costs.
  • Lead design and code reviews while mentoring junior engineers on technical quality and best practices.
  • Define and monitor key metrics for performance, cost, accuracy, and security of all agentic features.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 6+ years of professional software engineering experience designing and delivering complex, scalable distributed systems.
  • Must possess AI fluency with hands-on experience in LLMs, foundation model APIs, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, and embedding-based search.
  • Must have experience designing, building, and operating AI agents or agentic workflows in production environments.
  • Must be proficient in Python and have a strong grasp of cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP.
  • Must possess a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with RESTful services, event-driven architectures, and backend databases (preferred).
  • Familiarity with containerization technologies like Kubernetes and Docker, along with modern CI/CD practices (preferred).
  • Background in retail, e-commerce, or supply chain domains (preferred).

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