Senior Staff Software Engineer

Company: W. W. Grainger
Location: Chicago
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

W.W. Grainger, Inc., is a leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. At Grainger, We Keep the World Working by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products and solutions delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. Known for its commitment to service and award-winning culture, the Company had 2024 revenue of $17.2 billion across its two business models. In the High-Touch Solutions segment, Grainger offers approximately 2 million maintenances, repair and operating (MRO) products and services, including technical support and inventory management. In the Endless Assortment segment, Zoro.com offers customers access to more than 14 million products, and MonotaRO.com offers more than 24 million products. For more information, visit www.grainger.com.Compensation:The anticipated base pay compensation range for this position is $143,000.00 to $238,400.00.Rewards and Benefits:With benefits starting on day one, our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet team members' individual needs, including:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
• 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
• Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.The pay range provided above is not a guarantee of compensation. The range reflects the potential base pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual base pay compensation will depend, in part, on factors such as geographic work location and relevant experience and skills.The anticipated compensation range described above is subject to change and the compensation ultimately paid may be higher or lower than the range described above.Grainger reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion at any time, consistent with applicable law.As a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Software Engineer V), you will partner with technology teams across the organization to provide engineering leadership and influence design from an enterprise perspective. You will drive large-scale architectural decisions and lead cross-functional engineering efforts to improve scalability, system resilience, and developer efficiency across the Customer Order domain.You will work in a hybrid work environment (Chicago or Lake Forest offices). You will report to the Director of Product Engineering.You Will:
  • Provide thought leadership to shape and scope top-down 'answer' on implementing digital business transformation road maps.
  • Partner with clients to design and evaluate their overall digital reference architecture with an emphasis on digital commerce enablement.
  • Be a technology SME across various spaces but grounded in digital commerce, capable of creating and articulating cross-system architectures.
  • Establish coding best practices and guidelines, driving their adoption and enforcement across teams.
  • Identify architectural tradeoffs, recommend the best option and communicate this across teams.
  • Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and coaching to team members.
  • Design reliable, scalable, and performant end-to-end architectures - functional, data, technology.
  • Leverage industry knowledge and stay close to technology developments in the open-source and cloud communities.
  • Report data and metrics that will provide actionable insights and decisions to improve the service delivery.
  • Assist in communicating and modeling the overarching company strategy and core values of the organization to create a proper work environment and a sense of teamwork among employees.You Have:
    • 10+ years of experience with software engineering in a large and distributed environment working across multiple teams.
    • Cloud exposure (AWS / GCP / Azure) from the UI, API and CLI.
    • Experience implementing infrastructure as code and automation.
    • Knowledge of cloud-native event-driven microservices-based architectures including operational concerns such as performance, resiliency, observability, monitoring, discovery, and routing (Kafka / AWS SQS).
    • Experience with CI/CD principles and be able to support pipeline issues.
    • Good understanding of containerization (Docker / Kubernetes), APIs, and web services.
    • Experience tuning the performance, throughput and capacity of large-scale systems.
    • Knowledge of common DevOps tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub, or CircleCI.
    • Experience using observability, monitoring and alerting tools (DataDog / Dynatrace / Splunk).
    • Experience with Atlassian products such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo.
    • Bachelor's degree in Engineering / Computer Science / Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one's employment. With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.
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