JobsUSASenior Principal Software Engineer
Company : Nike
Location : Beaverton, OR, 97005
Posted Date : 15 September 2025
Job Type : Other
Category : Software Development
Occupation : Software Engineer
Job Details
If you're ready to innovate and lead, it's time to join Nike's Global Technology organization. From our flagship website and five-star mobile apps to developing products, managing big data, and providing leading edge engineering and systems support, our teams at NIKE Global Technology exist to revolutionize the future at the confluence of tech and sport. We invest and develop advances in technology and employ the most creative people in the world, and then give them the support to constantly innovate, iterate, and serve consumers more directly and personally. Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary, and collaborative, taking technology into the future and bringing the world with it.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for a Sr. Principal Software Engineer to build and develop technology for Nike's future in direct partnership with engineering leaders across the enterprise. This role collaborates with Engineers, Architects, Product Managers, and Program Managers to create reusable, well-architected and highly scalable solutions to modernize Nike's technology landscape.
Key focus areas include foundational technology, consumer experiences, supply chain & planning technology, and analytics. The successful candidate should be well-versed in back-end technologies and infrastructure, with the ability to contribute to front-end development as needed. This candidate should be a seasoned software engineering and technology leader with excellent communication and teamwork skills, as well as the ability to multitask, innovate, and challenge conventional thinking.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Strategize and lead technical and impact analysis, create technical designs, and help create implementation plans to modernize existing technology solutions; this will involve engaging, collaborating, and partnering with the teams who build and maintain Nike's production systems and services
- Lead the technical design and development of efficient, reusable, secure, and resilient technology solutions to replace existing legacy and deprecated software in direct support of Nike's multi-year simplification and modernization journey
- Lead hands-on software engineering and coding tasks across multiple engineering squads aligned to multi-year platform roadmaps, Global Technology standards, and modern industry trends
- Drive continuous transformational changes to accelerate Nike's technical maturity innovation, experimentation, standards, best practices, and developer productivity, and to promote a rich platform engineering culture on par with best-in-class industry norms
- In addition, you will also enable cross-team collaboration across software engineering teams by growing and supporting the culture of communities of practices (COPs) for specialized multi-disciplinary technical areas, including Observability, API, Data, AI/ML, Kubernetes, DevOps, Cloud, Pipeline, Disaster Recovery, OpenSource, etc.
This role reports into the Tech Modernization Organization and will connect across all levels and functions of Global Technology at Nike to deliver modernization of platforms at scale. This role is critical to accelerating Nike's journey to simplify and modernize its technology landscape to deliver cost-savings, better business agility, and faster time-to-market. This role will involve partnering closely with functions that support foundational technologies and consumer experiences across Nike's public cloud infrastructure, digital, retail, wholesale, and data centers globally.
WHAT YOU BRING
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or similar field or relevant professional experience, education, and training
- 12+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale production-grade software development and platform engineering
- 10+ years developing custom software using common languages or technologies including but not limited to Java, Node.js, Golang, React, or JavaScript
- 7+ years in a Principal/Lead engineering role responsible for system design decisions and direct technical leadership over engineering teams focused on delivering enterprise scale systems
- 7+ years professional experience with Cloud Native technologies on platforms like AWS or other major cloud providers; proven experience in tackling cloud challenges around clustering, end-to-end service design, resiliency, reliability, streaming, high availability / disaster recovery (HA/DR) and complex distributed systems
- 4+ years professional experience with container runtimes, such as Kubernetes, deployment tools like Terraform, and configuration management solutions like Ansible
- Experience strategizing, leading, and delivering multiple complex transformations and software migrations
- Hands on expertise in Micro Services Architecture, Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, API Development and Serverless Architecture
- Deep foundational knowledge of software engineering practices, particularly on distributed systems and cloud native architectures
- Broad understanding on Big Data, ML/Ops, Data Analytics, Visualization, Integration Tools and Technologies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, feeling as comfortable addressing executives as the software engineering team
- High emotional intelligence with the ability to bring diverse groups together to tackle common goals
- Highly passionate about delivery, being comfortable with both providing technical direction as well as being a contributing member of the team
- Thinks long-term and holistically, and takes ownership of ambiguous problems to drive results
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