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About the Role

Nordstrom is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for its Inventory Technology team. This role is critical for building technology to improve inventory movement, tracking, and optimization. The engineer will oversee design, architecture, and implementation, driving innovation and ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for a 150+ engineering organization on code design, build, and ship practices, including agentic development.
• Architect and develop complex, scalable systems that meet SLAs, KPIs, and engineering standards.
• Design and evolve event-driven, microservices-based architectures, including streaming platforms like Kafka, for real-time inventory visibility.
• Collaborate with and influence senior technology and business leaders to recommend solutions and articulate trade-offs.
• Set technical direction and strategy across the Inventory Technology portfolio, acting as the domain's technical authority.
• Lead engineers across multiple teams by providing guidance on software design and development.
• Diagnose and remedy performance or security issues.
• Demonstrate expertise in industry standards for secure development practices.
• Apply expertise with telemetry solutions and products.
• Contribute to open source, community projects, and engineering standards.
• Mentor and elevate Senior engineers, assisting in talent acquisition and retention.
• Stay hands-on by building POCs and directly addressing complex problems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Highly proficient with Java and Python.
• Highly experienced with AWS and/or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI systems; experience with AWS Bedrock AgentCore is a strong plus.
• Experience with Agile methodologies with a continuous improvement and quality mindset.
• DevOps experience with a track record of improving time to recovery and mitigating failures.
• Highly experienced with various CI/CD processes and tools (GitLab) and containerization technologies.
• Highly skilled at applying architectural patterns to complex scalable systems.
• Experienced with developing data science enabled solutions using big data and traditional software skills.
• Experience leveraging AI, particularly Generative AI, to enhance platform automation, reduce operational costs, and improve engineering productivity.
• Track record of designing and developing services and applications with enterprise-grade security.
• Highly experienced with mentoring and coaching engineers.
• Track record of architecting and solving complex engineering problems at scale with outstanding business and technology results.
• Experience in supply chain and/or complex ecommerce domains is preferred.
• Domain experience with inventory management, warehouse management systems (WMS), or RFID-based tracking systems is a strong plus.

Skills

• Java
• Python
• AWS
• GCP
• Agentic AI systems
• AWS Bedrock AgentCore
• Agile methodologies
• DevOps
• CI/CD
• GitLab
• Containerization technologies
• Architectural patterns
• Data science
• Big data
• Generative AI
• Enterprise-grade security
• Mentoring
• Coaching
• Supply chain
• Ecommerce
• Inventory management
• Warehouse management systems (WMS)
• RFID-based tracking systems

Location

• Remote
• Onsite

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Principal
• 10+ years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree
• Master's degree

Salary/Compensations

• $191,000.00 - $297,000.00 Annual

Benefits

• Medical/Vision
• Dental
• Retirement
• Paid Time Away
• Life Insurance
• Disability
• Merchandise Discount
• EAP Resources
• Performance-based incentives/bonuses
• 401k

About the Company

• Nordstrom is a leading fashion retailer.
• Inventory is Nordstrom’s biggest investment and the productive use of it is critical to the company’s success.
• Our team is responsible for the movement execution and optimization of inventory across a network of 400+ stores and our warehouses, as well as the visibility and traceability of the inventory.
• We are also responsible for the systems that support all of the reverse logistics lifecycle for Nordstrom.
• Our platform provides a real-time, unified representation of inventory state, enabling stores, fulfillment centers, and enterprise stakeholders to make informed decisions about stock availability, movement, and allocation.
• We’re also at the forefront of applying AI and agentic architectures to transform how inventory systems are built, tested and operated.

Equal Opportunity

• For Los Angeles or San Francisco applicants: Nordstrom is required to inform you that we conduct background checks after conditional offer and consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with legal requirements per Los Angeles, Cal. Muni. Code 189.04 and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
• Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation should contact the nearest Nordstrom location, which can be identified at www.nordstrom.com.
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