Principal Engineer Database and Messaging Platforms
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Job Location:
Richfield, MN - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description
The Database and Messaging Technology Platforms team is responsible for the delivery of data resources (databases and messaging) within our technology platform. This team has been focused on transforming these capabilities from vendor licensed and self-managed to cloud native solutions. This strategic hands-on role shapes multi-year technology strategy influences architecture and delivers platforms that accelerate development improve reliability and reduce cost.
This role is hybrid which means you will be required to work some days on-site at the Best Buy location listed on this posting and some days virtually from home or other non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process
What youll do
Preferred Qualifications
Were committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
About us
As part of the Best Buy team youll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life in our stores online and in customers homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. Were committed to being a great place to work where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
The Database and Messaging Technology Platforms team is responsible for the delivery of data resources (databases and messaging) within our technology platform. This team has been focused on transforming these capabilities from vendor licensed and self-managed to cloud native solutions. This strategic hands-on role shapes multi-year technology strategy influences architecture and delivers platforms that accelerate development improve reliability and reduce cost.
This role is hybrid which means you will be required to work some days on-site at the Best Buy location listed on this posting and some days virtually from home or other non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process
What youll do
- Set technical direction for critical data platforms and influence architecture across teams.
- Anticipate trends (serverless event-driven data mesh) to keep Best Buy ahead.
- Build paved paths for data storage/transport using AWS services (Aurora DynamoDB ElastiCache MSK SNS/SQS).
- Deliver reference architectures SDKs IaC modules (CloudFormation/CDK/Terraform) and self-service workflows.
- Drive modernization and migration from legacy systems to AWS.
- Ship large-scale secure observable platform components (multi-region DR schema evolution).
- Automate to reduce toil; embed best practices (testing SRE OpenTelemetry CloudWatch CI/CD).
- Champion security-by-default (IAM Secrets Manager segmentation compliance).
- Lower TCO via right-sizing autoscaling lifecycle policies and architectural simplification.
- Provide cost insights and guardrails aligning spend with business value.
- Act as a technical leader and multiplier; mentor engineers and sponsor community initiatives.
- Drive consensus and communicate decisions clearly.
- Operates effectively in complex environments shapes architecture and multi-year strategies.
- Ships major services and infrastructure; mentors and teaches new patterns and tools.
- 7 years in software/platform engineering; 5 years designing large-scale highly available systems.
- 5 years of experience in data storage (relational NoSQL distributed) and transport (streaming messaging).
- 5 years of AWS experience across computer networking storage security observability.
- 5 years of experience with IaC CI/CD and/or automated testing
- 3 years of experience with event-driven architecture at scale (MSK SNS/SQS).
- Excellent communication and risk articulation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proven record leading cross-team initiatives.
- Legacy-to-AWS modernization experience.
- SRE practices and observability (CloudWatch OpenTelemetry).
- Data governance/compliance; secure multi-tenant patterns.
- FinOps and cost-aware architecture.
Were committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Generous employee discount
- Physical and mental well-being support
About us
As part of the Best Buy team youll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life in our stores online and in customers homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. Were committed to being a great place to work where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
Required Experience:
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