Senior Engineer - Platform

Role Description

Wendy’s is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Digital Engineering team. This role will be involved in all phases of our cloud native application and service release lifecycle. Platform Engineers are responsible for design, implementation, and ongoing support of the production services, applications and cloud platform components that comprise our backend. In this role you will leverage your technical skills in systems management, cloud native software development and database skills to provide best-practices guidance and tier-3 support for the digital footprint at a great company.

• Work closely with operations and software engineering teams to design and implement scalable and high-performance solutions for our cloud platform as a service and internal management tools.
• Define monitoring requirements and implement automated incident resolution solutions.
• Ensure engineering best practices are followed (unit and functional testing, code reviews, CI, design documentation and review, etc.).
• Design, implement, and manage a highly scalable, observable, and automated cloud platform for running various workloads and applications.
• Identify areas for process and efficiency improvement within Platform Services Operations; recommend solutions and assist in overseeing implementation. Actively facilitate continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors Degree, preferably in Computer Science or Management Information Systems OR 6 years equivalent experience
• 5+ years of platform, cloud, or software engineering experience
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Skilled at communicating effectively and empathetically with technical and non-technical users
• Experience working on an Agile/Kanban team
• Comprehensive understanding of SDLC
• QSR experience a plus
• Google Cloud Platform experience a plus
• Kubernetes administration experience a plus

Requirements

• Expected Work Location (Remote): It is expected that you will primarily perform work remotely. You may be asked to travel, as needed, to the Wendy's Restaurant Support Center (RSC) (1 Dave Thomas Blvd, Dublin, OH 43017), or to other location(s) as designated by the Company. Changes to work location arrangements are subject to managerial approval and business needs.

Benefits

• The base pay range for this position is USD $93,000.00/Yr. to USD $158,000.00/Yr.
• The target annual bonus for this role is 10% of annualized base salary, based on actual company and personal performance.
• Our restaurant support roles are eligible for a wide array of benefits, including parental leave, free EAP sessions, company 401k match, and other great offerings.
• For more details about our benefits, including an overview of eligibility and terms for certain benefits, please visit our benefits website,