Software Engineer - Platform Integration

Work Location Type: Remote  

About Grainger:

W.W. Grainger, Inc., is a leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. At Grainger, We Keep the World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products and solutions delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. Known for its commitment to service and award-winning culture, the Company had 2024 revenue of $17.2 billion across its two business models. In the High-Touch Solutions segment, Grainger offers approximately 2 million maintenances, repair and operating (MRO) products and services, including technical support and inventory management. In the Endless Assortment segment, Zoro.com offers customers access to more than 14 million products, and MonotaRO.com offers more than 24 million products. For more information, visit www.grainger.com.  

 Compensation

The anticipated base pay compensation range for this position is $86,100.00  to $143,500.00.

Rewards and Benefits:

With benefits starting on day one, our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet team members' individual needs, including:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
• 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
• Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.

For additional information and details regarding Grainger’s benefits, please click on the link below:

https://experience100.ehr.com/grainger/Home/Tools-Resources/Key-Resources/New-Hire

The pay range provided above is not a guarantee of compensation.  The range reflects the potential base pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual base pay compensation will depend, in part, on factors such as geographic work location and relevant experience and skills.   

The anticipated compensation range described above is subject to change and the compensation ultimately paid may be higher or lower than the range described above. 

Grainger reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion at any time, consistent with applicable law.  

Position Details:

Grainger is looking for a Software Engineer to support our continually expanding application integration offerings. You will work with Engineers, Architects and Analysts to develop product design solutions in a cloud environment that enable teams to delivery loosely coupled solutions to our customers safely with limited wait time. 

Grainger's Platform Engineers are hybrid systems engineers who build, test, deploy, and support products that deliver on Grainger's mission. We are a growing and diverse team with varying experience and backgrounds, from new grads to industry veterans.

Relevant industry experience is important (Integration Engineer (Kafka), Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or similar role). Working knowledge in a cloud environment and experience helping teams seamlessly connect applications is preferable.

You Will:

• Contribute your expertise to the integration team and actively engage in the implementation process.
• Help build a self-service and reliable system that engineers across the company can use easily.
• Attend daily standups to provide status of their stories, bring tech huddle topics, desk checks, and pair with peers to work on stories.
• Work with Engineers, Architects and Analysts to develop product design solutions in a public cloud environment.
• Provide support to engineers who need help with Kafka components and how to use them effectively in their applications.
• Create/modify our Kafka integration libraries or functions for customers to use and implement event streaming. 

You Have:

• Bachelors' degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
• Experience with System engineering, Architecture, Administration, Observability in a large and distributed environment working across multiple teams.
• Cloud exposure (AWS/GCP/Azure) from the UI, API and CLI/automation
• 1+ years of exposure with event streaming solutions with Kafka or other streaming technology.
• 1+ years of experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, Java, C++), ideally with multiple teams & contributing to the code base.
• Experience with CI/CD principles and be able to support pipeline issues
• Understand containerization, APIs, and web services.
• Experience with implementing infrastructure as code and automation via api or cli.
• Knowledge of common DevOps tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub, or CircleCI.
• Experience with Atlassian products such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and Bamboo.

Nice to Have:

• Vendor certification or training is expected in cases of established experience. Cloud Certification with AWS/GCP/Azure.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible work 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, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, including, but not limited to use of our website, any part of the application, interview or hiring process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.