Software Engineer - Data API at Costco in Issaquah, WA

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Software Engineers perform development work across the technology stack (both front-end/back-end expertise). They are versatile in how they can add value, demonstrating the ability to manage the completion of projects that involve databases, backend services, or the development of front-end applications. They should be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of emerging technologies to support the development of new solutions. Software Engineers understand the full technology stack and underlying applications, services, and databases in order to ensure optimal performance.

The Data API Software Engineer is responsible for the development, configuration, installation, support, and operations of data APIs that leverage enterprise certified datasets (i.e. inventory, sales, etc.). As part of Costco’s Data & Analytics strategy to enable the business through data, exposing certified datasets via APIs is a key component of this strategy. The Data API Software Engineer will partner with product owners, data engineers, data architects, and service integration platform engineers to design, build, and test data APIs that are relied upon across the company for providing enterprise certified data.

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ROLE

● Develops the conceptual systems architecture design and the supporting technologies needed to enable new and/or enhanced functionality within a given product/application, applying principles that promote availability, reusability, interoperability, and security into the design framework.

● Supports release planning activities in conjunction with Product Owners and teams.

● Identifies high level requirements to support the definition and refinement of a robust testing strategy.

● Supports the Product Owner with the identification and definition of enablers / work items to support the architectural runway of a given product/application.

● Defines the non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, resiliency, etc.) which support the development of epics and user stories aligned to a value stream.

● Identifies technical dependencies across several product / application teams to support the implementation of new or enhanced functionality.

● Performs development, optimization, and automation activities to support the implementation of a product/application.

● Develops and implements front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.

● Increases proficiency and understanding of relational and non-relational databases, distributed application architectures, user interfaces and user experience, quality assurance, security concerns, and business value creation.

● Drives engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.

● Provides the team with the development strategy, solution recommendations, and estimates for a given product/application.

● Participates in scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospective, showcases/demos, stand-ups, backlog refinement, etc.).

● Creates and executes unit tests which validate the code changes made to support the implementation of a user story.

● Uses test driven development (TDD) practices to assist with the detection/recognition of software defects early in the development process.

● Estimates, plans, and manages all implementation tasks and reports on development progress.

● Designs, builds, debugs, optimizes, and implements solutions in approved tool sets and databases.

● Develops high quality, efficient, and fault tolerant software.

● Supports, extends, and builds automated CI and CD pipelines.

● Designs and delivers DevSecOps automation for app deployment and testing.

● Uses APM/monitoring tools such as Dynatrace/Splunk and browser tools to perform request purepath/waterfall analysis to identify bottlenecks and suggest improvements.

● Participates in the development and documentation of department standards and best practices, and mentors other engineers.

● Provides the team with solution recommendations and estimates for a given product/application.

● Identifies deficiencies within a product/application’s code base and identifies opportunities to improve overall code quality.

● Collaborates with team members (e.g., Systems Architects, Systems Analysts) to define project specifications and release documentation for all phases of the product development cycle from product definition to design, through implementation.

● Conducts peer code reviews for the software changes made by other engineers within a team.

● Designs, develops, tests, and deploys data APIs complying with standards, guidelines, and best practices.

● Executes against project plans and delivers assignments within scope, schedule, and budget.

● Assesses functional and nonfunctional requirements, and creates designs to meet both business and technical needs.

● Creates conceptual and detailed technical design documents.

● Provides implementation expertise contributing to rollback, post install, and other artifacts as required, including creation of support plans.

● Adheres to security management practices and promotes established security standards.

● Maintains current knowledge of industry trends and standards around API development and security.

● Conducts peer code reviews for API/code changes.

● Communicates technical concepts to non-technical audiences both in written and verbal form.

REQUIRED

● Experience building:

○ REST APIs in C#.

○ GraphQL APIs in C#.

○ Resilient applications.

○ API test suites.

● Experience working with:

○ API Development tooling (i.e. Visual Studio, Postman, etc.).

○ API contract design (Swagger, OpenAPI, GraphQL schema, etc.).

○ Google Cloud Platform technologies (i.e. Apigee, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Logging & Monitoring, etc.).

○ Azure PaaS technologies (i.e. APIM, Functions, Front Door, App Insights, Log Analytics, etc.).

○ Security frameworks (i.e. OAuth, SAML, etc.).

○ CI/CD pipelines, Github, Azure DevOps, containers, and artifact repositories.

○ SDLC, including Requirements Analysis, Design, Installation, Development, Testing (application code and user acceptance), and Deployment.

● Experience with:

○ Object-oriented programming & design patterns.

○ Building microservices.

○ Distributed architectures and multi-threading.

○ Secure coding practices.

○ Performance analysis and optimization of APIs.

○ Programming/scripting languages (i.e. Python, C#, Javascript, Java, BASH, SQL, and Powershell).

● Experience troubleshooting errors, latency, race conditions, etc. in high transaction environments.

● Strong communication skills, including technical documentation.

● Able to work in a fast-paced agile development environment.

● Able to support off hours work as required, including on location and 24/7 on call responsibilities on a rotational basis.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to IT-Recruiting@costco.com

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. In some cases, applicants and employees for selected positions will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.

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