Sr. Systems Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 15 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
A well-rounded position with significant responsibility and opportunity for leadership in a fast-growing company.
- Key role in supporting cloud transformations
- Engagement with diverse cross-functional teams
- Strong opportunities for career advancement
- High expectations for prior project management experience
Pros
- Leadership role with project management responsibilities
- Impactful engagement in cloud transformation projects
- Opportunities for professional development
Cons
- High responsibility may lead to stressful situations
- Requires capitalizing on diverse skill sets
- Cross-functional management can be complex
Who it's for
Mid to Senior-Level • Hybrid potential with some onsite requirements
Good fit
- Experienced project managers in IT
- Leaders who thrive in dynamic environments
- Professionals interested in cloud technologies
Not recommended for
- Entry-level professionals without leadership experience
- Those seeking minimal responsibilities
- Candidates averse to fast-paced project environments
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Summary:
AutoZone is looking for a highly experienced Engineer to be part of their growing Merchandising team! You will be challenged to deliver key business initiatives for the Merchandising organization.
As a Sr. Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for overseeing the transition and management of services/applications to production environments and have a deep focus on Java based applications, production operations, capacity planning and performance management. The role provides a mixture of team leadership and ownership as well as engineering. You will be challenged to solve complex technical problems with unique solutions, identify improvements and work on implementing your recommendations.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in MIS, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field required
- 8+ years of experience in the role of a Software Engineer, Developer or similar including:
- Strong software development background in Java/J2EE Technologies
- Previous experience in a Team Lead/Formal Mentorship role over an Engineering team
- Proficiency in CI/CD as well as version control systems
- Any messaging broker such as Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ
- Experience in Spring Boot, RestAPI’s and Oracle stored procedures
Experience with any of these technologies is a plus
- Experience in NoSQL Databases, Cloud Native, Couchbase
- Experience with merchandising systems, especially Space Planning or Assortment Planning
- Familiarity with BigQuery, PHP and Python
- Designing and building cloud native applications in GCP using Cloud Run or GKE
- Participating in product team scrums
- Adhere to Agile methodology established by the project leadership.
- Maintain proper status of user stories
- Collaborate with scrum master in refinement sessions.
- Utilize JIRA, Agility or similar tools
- Gather complex business requirements and translate product and project needs into data models supporting long-term solutions
- Act as liaison with business partners; ability to present technical discussions with non-technical audience
- Document data requirements of product owners
- Build strategies for long term data utilization
- Ability to quickly troubleshoot critical production issues spanning applications/infrastructure and tune high volume applications
- Ensure alignment of programs and projects with the strategic AZ Information Roadmap and related strategies
- Recommend and evaluate new tools and methodologies as needed
- Working independently with limited supervision, and with other department personnel
Responsibilities:
AutoZoners have a contagious work ethic; including a high sense of urgency to resolve issues quickly, creatively and efficiently. We also expect a high sense of responsibility and the ability to influence others. As an expert in your field, we expect you to:
- Ensure that sites and systems continuously and consistently run smoothly, optimally, efficiently and reliably
- As an AutoZoner, you will be surrounded consistently by top tier talent (both onsite as well as remote); to effectively work with your team you will be expected to hold a high level of organization, detail orientation, and the ability to articulate issues clearly.
- Collaborate with Development teams to create new and continuously improve products, including planning, testing, staging and deployment
- Develop new features, scaling, automation and self-healing processes for sites and systems
- Identify and Implement code/configuration changes to improve performance and reliability as necessary
- Implement effective 360 degree monitoring to ensure quick alerting of any problems in the echo system
- Advocate for top-notch design standards and lead process improvements in collaboration with architects and Application Engineers
- Collaborate and consult with the Merchandising Engineering team to help automate the end-to-end Operations of the applications/systems
- Delegate work to other less experienced engineers and provide coaching / mentorship
- Accurate work planning and execution; accurate project and time tracking
Benefits at AutoZone
AutoZone cares about people. That’s why AutoZone offers thoughtful benefits programs designed to improve AutoZoners’ physical, mental and financial wellbeing. Some of these benefits include:
· Competitive pay and time off
· Unrivaled company culture
· Medical, dental, vision, life, and short- and long-term disability insurance options
· 401(k) with Company match and Stock Purchase Plan
· Mental and physical wellbeing programs
· Opportunities for career growth and tuition reimbursement
Eligibility and waiting period requirements may apply. Learn more about all that AutoZone has to offer on careers.autozone.com.
An ONLINE APPLICATION is REQUIRED. Click the Apply button to complete your application. For step-by-step instructions on how to apply visit careers.autozone.com/candidateresources
