Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Work Location Type: Hybrid

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

Compensation

The anticipated base pay compensation range for this position is $93,800.00 to $156,400.00.

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.

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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:

This new team at Grainger is focused on transforming data from Grainger's important domains into reliable and real-time analytics products that address important business needs. You will be focused on building and operating data pipelines that power analytics ranging from key financial reports to production models that define data engineering experience at Grainger. You will play an important part in defining the strategy of the team, evaluating, and integrating data patterns and technologies, and building data products alongside domain experts. You are a thoughtful observer who enjoys investigating business problems and building data solutions that address them.

You are a technical teacher that can guide teams to adopt the capabilities and products you build.

You Will:

• As the senior technical engineer, your primary responsibility will be to design and implement highly efficient, reusable, and scalable data processing systems and pipelines across the tech stack, including Kubernetes, Databricks, and Snowflake.
• Design with test driven development and implement technical solutions to ensure data reliability and accuracy.
• Develop data models and mappings and build new data assets required by users. Perform exploratory data analysis on existing products and datasets.
• Educate data engineering teams in adopting new data patterns and tools.
• Understand trends and emerging technologies and evaluate the performance and applicability of potential tools for our requirements.
• Work within an Agile delivery / DevOps methodology to deliver product increments in iterative sprints.
• Function as SME within this area when engaging with our AI, Platform, and Business Analytics teams to build useful pipelines and data assets.
• Work with product and business to define roadmap, communication, and architecture.
• Mentor junior team members.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience in batch and streaming ETL using Spark, Python, Scala, Snowflake, or Databricks for Data Engineering or Machine Learning workloads.
• 3+ years orchestrating and implementing pipelines with workflow tools like Databricks Workflows, Apache Airflow, or Luigi
• 3+ years of experience prepping structured and unstructured data for data science models.
• 4+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and experience with shell scripting in Bash, Unix, or Windows shell is preferable.
• Experience working with a variety of databases including but not limited to vector databases, graph databases, relational, and NoSQL
• Experience using machine learning in data pipelines to discover, classify, and clean data.
• Implemented CI/CD with automated testing in Jenkins, Github Actions, or Gitlab CI/CD
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud services such as AWS Glue, Athena, Lambda, S3, and DynamoDB
• Demonstrated experience implementing data management life cycle, using data quality functions like standardization, transformation, rationalization, linking, and matching.

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.

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