Come join us in a key technical leadership role revolutionizing the digital customer experience at Nordstrom! Discovery, Marketing and Loyalty org supports key platforms and products that are integral to JWN customer experiences across omnichannel touchpoints. We are seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to lead the design and implementation of cutting-edge solutions across the stack.
A Day in the Life...
- Architect scalable, reliable technical solutions that serve millions of customers in a high-throughput, low SLA environment.
- Lead technical strategy for evolving our loyalty and marketing ecosystem, driving the conversation around next-generation capabilities while ensuring solutions are performant, secure, and provide exceptional omnichannel user experiences.
- Drive technical excellence across engineering teams, establishing best practices for distributed systems, highly performant APIs, and data processing at scale.
- Champion operational excellence by driving improvements in observability, telemetry, monitoring, and automation increasing system reliability and resiliency.
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including Product, Operations and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions that drive business impact
- Provide technical leadership as an individual contributor, mentoring and influencing engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and architectural guidance
- Evangelize and drive adoption of AI technologies across engineering teams to accelerate productivity, improve code quality, and increase speed of delivery through intelligent tooling and automation
- Partner with platform and enterprise services teams to ensure cohesive integration across the enterprise technology ecosystem
You Own This If You Have...
- 10+ years of relevant work experience in software engineering with significant focus on e-commerce systems, distributed architectures, or customer-facing applications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, with a master's degree preferred, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of technical leadership experience as an individual contributor, influencing engineering teams and driving technical direction in dynamic, high-scale e-commerce or digital retail environments
- Strong mentoring capabilities with a track record of developing engineers' technical skills and helping them grow their expertise in complex domains
- Strong background in distributed systems design, including experience with microservices architectures, event-driven systems, and handling high-volume transaction workloads.
- Expertise with cloud platforms and modern technology stacks for building resilient, scalable customer-facing applications
- Proven track record of building production-grade systems that handle business-critical operations with high availability requirements (99.95%+ uptime)
- Experience designing systems with API integration patterns, asynchronous processing, and data consistency strategies across distributed services
- Strong architectural software, service, and infrastructure design patterns with capabilities, demonstrating the ability to discuss, influence, and make trade-off decisions at multiple system levels, across domains
- Deep commitment to operational excellence, including expertise in observability tools, automated testing, deployment automation, and proactive monitoring
- Customer-focused mindset with ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions and communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical innovation while balancing practical business needs, operational constraints, and system stability
Bonus Points If You Have...
- Experience modernizing legacy loyalty and/or marketing technology ecosystem
- Previous experience leading large-scale technology migrations or platform consolidations across multiple business units
- Experience with AI-native Product development
- Track record of implementing observability and automation improvements that significantly reduced operational overhead
We’ve got you covered…
Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:
Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
Life Insurance and Disability
Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources
A few more important points...
The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities and qualifications for this job.
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Pay Range Details
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Pay offers are dependent on the location, as well as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of relevant work experience in software engineering
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or Engineering, master's preferred
- 4+ years of technical leadership experience
- Strong mentoring capabilities with a track record of developing engineers' skills
- Strong background in distributed systems design
- Expertise with cloud platforms and technology stacks
- Proven track record of building production-grade systems
- Experience designing systems with API integration patterns
- Strong architectural software design patterns
- Deep commitment to operational excellence
- Customer-focused mindset
Nordstrom Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nordstrom and has not been reviewed or approved by Nordstrom.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare options are described as broad, including medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside virtual care and mental health support. Additional protections like disability coverage, life/AD&D, and accounts such as HSA/FSA further strengthen the overall health-and-protection offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) plan with a defined employer match structure and access to additional financial programs like an employee stock purchase plan. Commuter accounts, transit subsidies, and adoption assistance add to the overall financial support beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-away benefits include PTO accrual, paid holidays, bereavement leave, parental and bonding leave, and a sabbatical program after tenure. PTO sharing and donation options expand flexibility in how time off can be used and supported across colleagues.
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What We Do
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