1 day ago
Lake Forest, IL, USASenior
Base Salary
$124k - $207k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead immersive, in-person dojos tailored to engineering teams’ real feature work, including charter workshops, AI Uplift, Game Days, and leadership dojos.
- Serve as a Forward Deployed Engineer aligned to a director’s domain, developing subject-matter expertise and identifying where future engagements can provide the most value.
- Use delivery metrics, pipeline and usage signals, and in-person observation to assess team needs and recommend team-wide or targeted improvement offerings.
- Build documentation and training for new technologies and ways of working, including in-person and self-paced learning opportunities.
- Provide data-driven feedback, facilitate communities of practice, and create a psychologically safe environment for learning.
- Partner with engineering managers and technical leads to set expectations, transfer ownership, and sustain improvements after engagements end.
- Produce reports covering engagement goals, outcomes, durable value, and wins.
- Use AI tools to accelerate research, gathering, and planning while independently owning engagement assessment and design.
Requirements
- Experience building production applications or components in one or more programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Node.js, and Python.
- Experience working in public cloud environments across services and technologies including Kubernetes, application services, databases, and networking.
- Experience building testing capabilities that run during the CI process, including TDD and unit testing, and explaining their benefits.
- Experience with integration methods such as APIs or data streams.
- Experience applying or coaching lean, agile, and DevOps principles to improve value flow.
- Understanding of fast feedback loops using DevOps patterns and integrating feedback into team ways of working.
- Understanding of software, quality, security, and hardware IT disciplines to remove delivery friction.
- Experience mentoring engineers or coaching teams through ambiguous, change-heavy situations.
- Ability to work across people, process, and technology and communicate progress, impediments, outcomes, and recommendations.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement with benefits beginning on day one.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, plus six free licensed-therapist sessions annually.
- Eighteen paid time-off days annually for full-time employees and six company holidays per year.
- A 6% company contribution to a 401(k) plan with no employee contribution required.
- Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing, and financial counseling and education tools.
- Maternity support, nursing benefits, up to 14 weeks of paid leave for birth parents, and up to four weeks for non-birth parents.
- Travel may be less than 25% depending on team locations; remote work may require 75% travel.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Grainger
W.W. Grainger is a public B2B distributor of maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) supplies, safety gear, and facility products for businesses. It sells through a high-touch distribution network and its Endless Assortment e-commerce brands Zoro and MonotaRO, alongside services like inventory management and technical support. Founded in 1927 and headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, Grainger serves more than 4.5 million customers and reported $17.2 billion in 2024 revenue.