W. W. Grainger
Senior Staff Engineer - Developer Experience & Enablement
W. W. Grainger, Lake Forest, Illinois, United States, 60045
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Senior Staff Engineer - Developer Experience & Enablement
Location:
LAKE FOREST, IL, US, 60045-5203 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 maintenance, 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 range for this position is $132,400 to $220,700. Rewards and Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one, plus 6 free therapy sessions annually. 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees, plus 6 holidays. 6% company contribution to a 401(k) plan per pay period, no employee contribution required. Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing, and financial counseling. Maternity support, nursing benefits, and paid leave for birth and non-birth parents. For more details on Grainger’s benefits, please click the link below: The pay range provided is not a guarantee of compensation. It reflects the potential base pay at the time of posting based on the job grade. Actual pay depends on factors like location, experience, and skills. Grainger reserves the right to amend or terminate its compensation and benefits programs at any time, in its sole discretion. Are you passionate about scaling engineering excellence and enabling teams to build faster, better, and more reliably? As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in our Engineering Effectiveness team, you’ll be at the center of Grainger’s mission to elevate developer experience across the organization. You’ll drive architectural decisions, evolve platform tooling, and lead high-impact engagements across domains to enhance system resilience, scalability, and developer productivity. This role isn’t about maintaining the status quo. It’s about influencing the future of engineering at Grainger — from core infrastructure to how our teams design, build, and ship software every day. You Will: Engage with product engineers and teams to understand how to create a frictionless, joyful experience that drives systemic change in Grainger’s delivery capabilities. Collaborate with the Engineering Enablement Team to design and deliver impactful consulting sessions and 'dojo' experiences empowering product engineering teams. Provide hands-on development support during embedded engineering engagements, guiding product teams through all SDLC phases. Partner with the Delivery Insights Team to generate insights that improve engineering excellence and enable data-driven strategies. Work with the Core Engineering Team to enhance the Internal Developer Portal (IDP), evolve software templates, and promote adoption of shared workflows. Help shape and drive Grainger’s overall Developer Experience (DevEx). You Have: 10+ years of software engineering experience in large, distributed environments working across multiple teams. Strong engineering empathy, with a passion for pair programming and supporting engineers at all skill levels. Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) across UI, API, and CLI. Experience with infrastructure as code and automation. Knowledge of cloud-native, event-driven microservices architectures, including operational concerns (Kafka, AWS SQS). Experience with CI/CD principles and best practices. Understanding of containerized workloads at scale (Docker, Kubernetes), APIs, and web services. Ability to tune performance and capacity of large-scale systems. Familiarity with DevOps tools like Ansible, GitHub, Terraform. Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk). Experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo). Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and fostering an inclusive, accessible work environment. If you need accommodations during the application process, please advise us so we can provide appropriate assistance.
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Location:
LAKE FOREST, IL, US, 60045-5203 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 maintenance, 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 range for this position is $132,400 to $220,700. Rewards and Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one, plus 6 free therapy sessions annually. 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees, plus 6 holidays. 6% company contribution to a 401(k) plan per pay period, no employee contribution required. Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing, and financial counseling. Maternity support, nursing benefits, and paid leave for birth and non-birth parents. For more details on Grainger’s benefits, please click the link below: The pay range provided is not a guarantee of compensation. It reflects the potential base pay at the time of posting based on the job grade. Actual pay depends on factors like location, experience, and skills. Grainger reserves the right to amend or terminate its compensation and benefits programs at any time, in its sole discretion. Are you passionate about scaling engineering excellence and enabling teams to build faster, better, and more reliably? As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in our Engineering Effectiveness team, you’ll be at the center of Grainger’s mission to elevate developer experience across the organization. You’ll drive architectural decisions, evolve platform tooling, and lead high-impact engagements across domains to enhance system resilience, scalability, and developer productivity. This role isn’t about maintaining the status quo. It’s about influencing the future of engineering at Grainger — from core infrastructure to how our teams design, build, and ship software every day. You Will: Engage with product engineers and teams to understand how to create a frictionless, joyful experience that drives systemic change in Grainger’s delivery capabilities. Collaborate with the Engineering Enablement Team to design and deliver impactful consulting sessions and 'dojo' experiences empowering product engineering teams. Provide hands-on development support during embedded engineering engagements, guiding product teams through all SDLC phases. Partner with the Delivery Insights Team to generate insights that improve engineering excellence and enable data-driven strategies. Work with the Core Engineering Team to enhance the Internal Developer Portal (IDP), evolve software templates, and promote adoption of shared workflows. Help shape and drive Grainger’s overall Developer Experience (DevEx). You Have: 10+ years of software engineering experience in large, distributed environments working across multiple teams. Strong engineering empathy, with a passion for pair programming and supporting engineers at all skill levels. Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) across UI, API, and CLI. Experience with infrastructure as code and automation. Knowledge of cloud-native, event-driven microservices architectures, including operational concerns (Kafka, AWS SQS). Experience with CI/CD principles and best practices. Understanding of containerized workloads at scale (Docker, Kubernetes), APIs, and web services. Ability to tune performance and capacity of large-scale systems. Familiarity with DevOps tools like Ansible, GitHub, Terraform. Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk). Experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo). Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and fostering an inclusive, accessible work environment. If you need accommodations during the application process, please advise us so we can provide appropriate assistance.
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