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 Engineer II, Kubernetes 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 

Overview

As part of the Foundational Technology - Kubernetes Engineering team you would play a key role in the efforts that have an immediate impact on the day-to-day efficiency of application software development and deployment by improving deployment processes, and enhancing overall system performance.

As a Software Engineer II, you’d be part of a skilled and motivated team, building, maintaining, and improving the Kubernetes platform public and private cloud infrastructure, ensuring optimum operational reliability and secure workload execution, while offering a streamlined experience to application developers.

What you’ll do

• Design and develop platform abstractions for Kubernetes on hybrid cloud infrastructure using Crossplane, Go, Python, and Argo tools
• Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Engage / collaborate with external technical teams to ensure timely, high-quality deliverables
• Provide on-call support, troubleshoot issues in production and non-production environments.
• Document technical design decisions, development processes, user guides, and runbooks.
• Operate independently with guidance from senior developers. Mentor and provide support to junior developers.
• Continuously learn and stay up to date with emerging trends and technologies in Platform Engineering technical domain. Apply this knowledge to improve Kubernetes Engineering deliverables.

Who You Are

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or comparable field, or equivalent self-study
• At least 2+ years of experience working on Kubernetes clusters
• At least 3+ years of application software development experience
• At least 2+ years of experience with developing containerized workloads
• An ownership mentality and can produce quality results with little direct supervision
• Experience using GitOps Tooling and CICD Pipelines
• Cloud automaton tooling and scripting experience – Terraform/CloudFormation
• Experience in REST and/or gRPC API development and implementation
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• Understanding of Lean Startup or Agile development methodologies
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Lucid and similar tools

Preferred

• Experience with large scale Kubernetes cluster life cycle management and cluster security
• Experience with hybrid cloud infrastructure, including GCP, AWS and OpenStack
• Cloud automaton tooling and scripting experience – Crossplane, Pulumi
• Experience in Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development
• Familiar with Encryption, Logging, and Privacy/Security Protocols (e.g. TLS 1.2, ELK stack)

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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