Company Overview

Grainger is North America's leading Maintenance Repair & Operations provider and E-commerce platform.

As a member of the Enterprise Systems team, you will have the exciting opportunity to build technical solutions to support the dynamic needs of a supply chain carrying 1.5 million products and an employee base of over 25 thousand.

The team, comprising of Infrastructure and Operations, Cyber Security, Technology Planning, Architecture and Engineering, supports over 1000 applications across the network and operates in an agile environment to deliver complex solutions quickly and seamlessly.

Overview

The Senior Platform Engineer is a hands-on development role with responsibilities for creating software solutions that will help Grainger grow as a business. This position is ideal for someone who is skilled and passionate about software development, is focused on helping build an inclusive engineering culture, and who is passionate in creating solutions that are going to help our customers ‘Get The Job Done’. Our teams will evolve as business demands shift so we are looking for individuals that have an aptitude and versatility for quickly pivoting their knowledge base/skills and are willing to take on ever evolving and challenging work as we continue to find new and creative ways to solve issues for our customers.

We believe you

• Can innovate and transform complex concepts into clean, simple solutions.
• Can determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions.
• Can investigate and resolve application issues, bottlenecks and inefficiencies using our Devops tools.
• Can grasp new technologies and apply them appropriately.
• Are able to conduct design sessions and assist in code deployments.
• Are aware of current trends in the development community and are able to understand latest technology updates.
• Have written high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code with ample relevant test coverage.
• Have been mentoring and supporting teammates.
• Have experience conducting and participating in code reviews that span multiple languages and applications.
• Will be effective in providing feedback, communicating issues/blockers and project status.
• Will collaborate well with other team members and stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 2 years of industry experience; or 5 years of industry experience
• Minimum of two years experience building Web Applications.
• Good understanding of web technologies, network protocols and Linux.
• Experience with large scale distributed infrastructure systems.
• Experience with building REST APIs and service-based architectures.
• Familiarity leveraging DevOps tools, managing applications in public cloud offerings such as AWS, etc.
• Able to drive architecture and design.
• Able to influence and direct other application groups to adopt Platform infrastructure.
• Ability to prioritize and track multiple tasks across multiple projects, under tight deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

EEOC Statement

“Grainger is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or protected veteran status.”