Software Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Platform Engineering - H-E-B

H-E-B Digital is seeking new team members (Partners)!

Since our inception, we have been investing heavily in our customers' digital experience, reinventing how they find inspiration from food, how they make food decisions, and how they get food into their homes. This is an exciting time to join H-E-B Digital, and we are hiring across the stack: front-end web and mobile, full-stack, and backend engineering. We are using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience. Our digital solutions are growing in popularity and adoption--like Curbside and Home Delivery--so you will get the opportunity to define the user experience for millions of customers and hundreds of thousands of Partners. If you are someone who enjoys taking on new challenges, working in a rapidly changing environment, learning new skills, and applying them all to solve large and impactful business problems, we want you as part of our team.

Our Partners thrive The H-E-B Way. In the Software Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Platform Engineering role, that means you have a... 

HEART FOR PEOPLE... you have a passion for mentorship and guidance, and love for the direct person-to-person interactions that create strong bonds between teams

HEAD FOR BUSINESS... you have an ownership mentality and a consistent track record of timely delivery of high-quality software

PASSION FOR RESULTS... the ability to guide the discussion, remove roadblocks, and provide guardrails for your team as they identify challenges and propose solutions 

As a Manager of Engineering, you will raise up your team, helping develop individual careers and achieving goals, spotting, and addressing common team problems, and coaching and mentoring those identified for potential company leadership. You will work closely with stakeholders from product and design, and other engineering leaders, to provide high-quality, repeatable technology delivery for the digital engineering organization. You will provide leadership across all aspects of development to maintain a high bar for technology, people, and process.

What You'll Do (Management, Design & Development)

• Manage a high caliber team of 5-7 software engineers by providing guidance through coaching, setting goals and priorities, and contributing through hands-on software development tasks
• Responsible for SDLC and ownership of platform APIs and managed tooling offerings.
• Foster a culture that promotes innovation, creativity, and collaboration, encouraging continuous learning, experimentation, and growth.
• Cultivate open and honest communication through radical candor, ensuring constructive feedback, transparency, ownership, and accountability.
• Create and execute technical roadmaps. Build and deliver high-impact platform engineering initiatives spanning multiple systems with focus on improving developer experiences.
• Publish detailed and easily accessible documentation for technical users and non-technical stakeholders.
• Coordinate production support response on critical production incidents.
• Work with third party vendors and technical contacts
• Execute all HR functions including performance assessment, career advancement, expenditure management, and time-off administration.

Who you are 

• You worked at least for 3 years as Software Engineering Manager of a team of high-caliber software engineers
• You worked at least for 9 years as a Software Engineer with expertise in designing and building large scale distributed systems
• You have hands-on coding and debugging skills in Go, Python, Java, Bash, and Terraform
• You have deep knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization technologies, in addition to Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Crossplane, Argo tools, Networking, Security, and Infrastructure Design
• You have expertise building and running secure, reliable, and resilient software systems

What are the Perks?

• A robust Benefits plan with coverage starting Day One
• Dental, vision, life, and other insurance plans; flexible spending accounts; short term / long term disability coverage - Partner Care Team, for any time you have healthcare or coverage questions
• Telehealth offers 24/7 access to board-certified doctors by phone
• Partner Guidance allows free counselor visits
• Funeral leave, jury duty, and military pay (subject to applicable law)
• Maternal / paternal leave for new parents, including adoptions
• 10% off H-E-B brand products in-store and online
• Eligibility to participate in 401(k)
• Opportunity to become a “Partner-Owner” after 12 months

Who We Are 
H-E-B is one of the largest, independently owned food retailers in the nation, operating over 400 stores throughout Texas and Mexico, with annual sales generating over $40 billion 
We hire talented people (116,000+ Partners), and give them autonomy to be creative in how they impact the business 
We're a Partner-driven company with a Bold Promise--Because People Matter 
We embrace Diversity and Inclusion as core values, and support them with thriving company-wide programs 
We're a truly original Texas-based company that created the Spirit of Giving to help Texas communities every day 
Once eligible, our Partners become Owners in the company. 'Partner-owned' means our most important resources--People--drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Retailing Company 

Hiring in San Antonio or Austin locations!

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