Senior Principal Engineer - Platform And SRE

Summary Set technical direction for Nordstrom's cloud platform, CI/CD, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), shaping architecture and engineering practices across the organization. Lead investments in autonomous deployments, runtime scaling, multi-region resilience, and reliability systems while balancing customer needs, operational effectiveness, and cost. Responsibilities Own the long-term architecture and design principles for cloud platforms, CI/CD, and SRE. Identify and resolve cross-team platform challenges, and align reliability targets with business capabilities. Drive standards through pipeline enforcement, production validation, and design reviews. Guide technical decisions during significant incidents and turn lessons learned into platform improvements. Mentor senior engineers, influence hiring, and represent platform engineering externally. Assess emerging technologies and make adoption decisions based on demonstrated production value. Requirements 15+ years of professional software or infrastructure engineering experience and a bachelor's or master's degree in a related field. Deep architectural experience with large-scale cloud platforms, Kubernetes, multi-account estates, and shared services. Enterprise-scale continuous delivery, software supply chain security, SRE practices, and production resilience experience. Experience engineering for predictable traffic peaks, including capacity forecasting, load testing, and chaos exercises. Strong technical judgment, cross-team influence, communication, and mentorship skills. Available to work at the Seattle corporate headquarters at least four days per week. #J-18808-Ljbffr Brobston Group