Junior Site Reliability Engineer (Onsite - Seatle, WA)

Nordstrom Technology is committed to delivering reliable and scalable systems that power critical services for our customers. We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Junior Site Reliability Engineer 1 (SRE) to join our team with a strong focus on proactive monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis. This role is ideal for someone passionate about ensuring system stability and performance, while diving deep technically to understand and resolve issues when incidents occur.As a Junior SRE, you will play a key role in maintaining "eyes on glass" monitoring to detect and respond to system anomalies, ensuring the health and reliability of our services. You will also collaborate with teams to address root causes of incidents and continuously improve observability and reliability processes.This role is considered onsite. Candidates must be willing to work in office 5 days/week at Nordstrom's headquarters in Seattle, WA. The scheduled shift for this role will be 3pm-11pm PST.

Day in the life...

• Monitor critical systems: Maintain real-time "eyes on glass" monitoring dashboards to proactively identify and respond to anomalies in system performance and availability.
• Incident response: Participate in on-call rotations to respond to incidents, troubleshoot issues, mitigate outages, and restore service as quickly as possible.
• Root cause analysis: Dive deep into technical investigations to identify the underlying causes of incidents, documenting findings and working with teams to prevent recurrence.
• Observability enhancement: Collaborate with teams to refine monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to provide actionable insights and reduce time-to-detection and resolution.
• Automation: Write and maintain scripts to automate routine operational tasks, incident remediation, and reporting.
• SLOs and SLIs: Support the definition and tracking of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) to measure and improve system reliability.
• System optimization: Assist in improving CI/CD pipelines and workflows to ensure seamless deployments and minimize downtime.
• Documentation: Create and maintain detailed documentation for monitoring configurations, incident handling procedures, and root cause analysis findings.
• Collaboration: Work closely with software engineering and infrastructure teams to improve fault tolerance, scalability, and operational readiness.
  
  

You own this if you have...

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience required.
• Foundational understanding of site reliability engineering principles, with a strong focus on monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
• Exposure to observability tools such as Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, or Grafana, and logging platforms like Splunk or Elasticsearch.
• Basic proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, or Java) to assist with automation and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Azure) and their services.
• Understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to dive deep into technical issues to identify and resolve root causes.
• Excellent communication skills for incident reporting, documentation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• A proactive mindset and attention to detail, with a willingness to learn and grow in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
  
  

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Benefits

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources