Software Engineer - Platform

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As part of a Fortune 100 company and retail leader, your work can change an entire industry. Our CEO is a forward-thinker when it comes to tech, and with one of Forbes Top 50 CIOs leading the charge, you can come to work knowing you'll have access to the data, tools, and support that few other companies can offer. We also know what it takes to create an inclusive culture that supports you. Our teams are structured around the engineer, giving you the support you need to do your best work. Since we've been in business for over 100 years, we've built an excellent track record of growth and success. There's peace of mind knowing you have the stability and resources you need to focus on solving tough challenges. And as you solve these challenges, know you'll be surrounded by supportive associates with curious minds who listen to you, respect you, and recognize your hard work.
Innovate in Charlotte
This position is based at our on-site Tech Hub in Charlotte, North Carolina. Lowe's Tech Hub is an ultramodern work environment, complete with cutting-edge technology, collaborative workspaces, an on-site barista and Zen Garden, and other perks to enhance your work experience.
Job Summary
Platform Engineering Team integrates and manages a platform that provides runtime environment for stateless and stateful workloads and provides toolset required to build /deploy/manage workloads. The primary purpose of this role is to serve as a Platform Engineer within our Carbon Platform team contributing to the design, development, and support of an enterprise wide microservices platform.
This individual with work closely with both architects and engineers to design, build, and iterate on a suite of automation which is responsible for the infrastructure setup, configuration, and integrations of key cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio, Vault and Consul, ArgoCD, Spinnaker, etc. This role assumes a high comfort level working in an iterative and fast paced agile environment. This role requires a cloud native design philosophy. Responsibilities may distribute across all major public cloud providers including Google, Azure, and AWS as well as our on-prem data centers and/or stores. The Software Engineer for Platform's Core Infra team absolutely requires a strong passion and drive for automation, consumer experience, and improvement.
What You Will Do

• Translates complex cross-functional business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions; partners with Product Team to understand business needs and functional specifications
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs; evaluates project deliverables to ensure they meet specifications and architectural standards.
• Build and manages Kubernetes Container orchestration platform and support stateless and stateful workloads.
• Design patterns and develop solutions in Golang, Yaml, and Python/shell and understands application-level software architecture; makes technical trade-off decisions at application level.
• Automates and simplifies team development, test, and operations processes; develops detailed architecture plans for large scale enterprise architecture projects and drives the plans to fruition
• Solves complex architecture/design and business problems; solutions are extensible; works to simplify, optimize, remove bottlenecks, etc.
• Provides mentoring and guidance to more junior level engineers; may provide feedback and direction on specific engineering tasks

Minimum Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in software development or a related field
• 2 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC) through iterative agile development
• 2 years' experience working with any of the following: frontend technologies (user interface/user experience), middleware (microservices and application programming interfaces), database technologies, or DevOps
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer information systems, or related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree)

Preferred Skills/Education

• Experience as platform engineer, DevOps engineer, application engineer or similar.
• Experience in building platforms to provide IAAS and PAAS solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Rancher, Istio, Kubernetes, Docker, Vault, Consul.
• SME in Containerization, Virtualization, Linux operating systems and cloud technologies with strong development and automation background.
• Experience with using Git and SME in CI/CD tools - Jenkins, ARGOCD, Spinnaker and etc.

Benefits

• 401k with up to 4.25% match
• Bi- annual Cash Bonus
• Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan (15% discount of strike price)
• Tuition-Free Education
• 10-week Maternity/Paternal Leave
• 10% Associate Discount

For information about our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits .
About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com .
Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.