Software Engineer II

Work Location Type: Hybrid 

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we’re dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

Position Details:
Grainger is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering team. You have 3-5 years of relevant industry experience (Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Network Engineer, Systems Administrator, Linux Administrator, Platform Engineer or similar role). Additionally, you will have experience working with application performance monitoring (APM) tools to collect telemetry about production systems and optimize software delivery. You will be based in downtown Chicago or Remote and will report to the Senior Manager, Product Engineering. 

You Will:
•    Improve observability across the entire eco-system  

•    Administer observability tools and solve observability related issues 
•    Ensure system stability and reduce MTTR. 
•    Define and implement modern incident management process to support DevOps. 
•    Drive technical initiatives to improve automation, self-healing/remediation 
•    Help mentor and develop junior team members 
•    Grow and evangelize the capabilities of Datadog (and other observability tools) within Grainger 

You Have: 

•    Bachelors' degree in Engineering or Computer Science or Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience. 
•    3-5+ years of experience with an APM tool (such as Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, or Honeycomb). Demonstrated experience within the observability domain (traces, metrics and logs). 
•    3-5+ years of experience with Swift iOS, Objective-c, Java Script , Realm, Firebase, Unit testing, UI testing  

•    Ability to define the strategies, patterns, solutions to improve the reliability of the system 
•    Have a knack for automation and a passion for reducing toil 

•    Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems and conducting blameless postmortems 
•    1-2 years of experience in at least one of the following languages: Java, Python, or Go. 
•    Experience with cloud native technologies such as containers, Kubernetes, Istio. Familiarity with EKS is a plus.  

•    Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems. 
•    Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
•    Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines. 
•    Proficient in using Git Hub
•    Experience working with microservices. 
 

Our Benefits:
With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health, and wellbeing. Our programs provide alternatives to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans Paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year
Automatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period
Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations and tuition reimbursement
A comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical, and social wellbeing programs

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We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one’s employment.  With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.