DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Platform to design and build best-in-class engineering solutions for our distributed systems. In this remote role, you will perform complex analysis and coordinate work to develop high-reliability platform services.

What You'll Do

Drive development of platform automation, tooling, and services that improve reliability, performance, and operational consistency.
Develop secure, scalable, and maintainable platform components for enterprise-wide use.
Monitor, identify, and correct complex platform issues including message processing abnormalities, consumer lag, index replication issues, and API gateway errors.
Improve platform observability, alerting, and operational maturity.
Produce conceptual designs, prototypes, and patterns that improve how teams onboard, operate, and scale usage of platform services.
Apply distributed systems knowledge to create resilient patterns for messaging, streaming, indexing, and APIs.
Research platform, messaging, distributed system, and observability technologies and provide optimization recommendations.
Drive and influence roadmaps for platform upgrades, lifecycle improvements, automation enhancements, and new capabilities.
Lead root cause analysis for complex failures across messaging, streaming, search, or API flows and implement corrective actions.
Assign short-term engineering tasks, automation work, or operational efforts to teammates based on platform priorities.
Mentor teammates and contribute to the professional growth of SE2 and SE1 engineers.
Develop own and junior team member capabilities through assessment, development planning, training, and coaching.
Maintain understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education.
Contribute to work within an established program management plan to achieve specific goals.
Work with product teams to document technical requirements and design platform features that serve multiple use cases.

What We're Looking For

Experience that enables you to deal with the majority of situations and to advise others (over 3 years to 6 years).

Nice to Have

Bachelor's degree or equivalent level.
Basic experience coordinating the work of others (4 to 6 months).

Technical Stack

Kafka
RabbitMQ
OpenSearch
Azure API Management (APIM)

Benefits & Compensation

Compensation: $83,000.00 - $138,200.00
Competitive total rewards package that could include incentive, equity and benefits.
Compliance with all state paid leave requirements.
Generous suite of benefits.