Nordstrom

Junior SRE (Seattle,WA)

Nordstrom
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Base Salary

$105k - $163k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Monitor critical systems and maintain real-time dashboards to identify performance and availability anomalies.
  • Participate in on-call incident response, troubleshoot issues, mitigate outages, and restore services.
  • Investigate incidents, identify root causes, document findings, and collaborate on recurrence prevention.
  • Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices.
  • Write and maintain scripts for operational automation, incident remediation, and reporting.
  • Support the definition and tracking of Service Level Objectives and Service Level Indicators.
  • Assist with CI/CD pipeline and workflow improvements to minimize downtime.
  • Create and maintain documentation for monitoring configurations, incident procedures, and root cause analyses.
  • Collaborate with software engineering and infrastructure teams to improve fault tolerance, scalability, and operational readiness.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Foundational understanding of site reliability engineering principles, monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
  • Exposure to observability tools including Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, or Grafana and logging platforms such as Splunk or Elasticsearch.
  • Basic proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages, including Python, Go, Bash, or Java.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure and their services.
  • Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Strong analytical, communication, documentation, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
  • Proactive mindset, attention to detail, and willingness to learn in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, dental, retirement, paid time away, life insurance, and disability benefits.
  • Merchandise discount and Employee Assistance Program resources.
  • 401(k), insurance options, PTO accruals, holidays, and additional benefits subject to eligibility requirements.
  • May be eligible for performance-based incentives or bonuses.
  • Onsite in Seattle, Washington, five days per week, with a Sunday–Thursday schedule from 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureBashDatadogDockerElasticsearchGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaKubernetesPrometheusPythonSplunk

Categories

Site Reliability
Nordstrom

About Nordstrom

10,000+ employees

Nordstrom is a U.S. fashion retailer selling apparel, shoes, accessories, beauty, and home goods through department stores, off-price Nordstrom Rack, and e-commerce. Founded in 1901 and headquartered in Seattle, it is a public company (NYSE: JWN) serving consumers nationwide, with technology, merchandising, and supply-chain teams supporting its digital and in-store operations.

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