Sr. Systems Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 15 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to the demanding technical skills required, opportunities for leadership, and engagement in cutting-edge software development.
- High demand for skills with competitive pay
- Good opportunities for mentorship and leadership
- Involvement in modern software engineering practices
- Requires advanced technical knowledge and experience
Pros
- Strong demand for technical skills in the job market
- Mentorship opportunities for junior employees
- Involvement in software projects enhances professional development
Cons
- Requires extensive technical expertise (7+ years)
- High expectations for leadership and mentoring
- On-call rotation can affect work-life balance
Who it's for
Senior • Full-time, in-office
Good fit
- Senior engineers with Java experience
- Mentors wanting to guide junior developers
- Professionals interested in technical leadership
Not recommended for
- Candidates with limited software engineering experience
- Those focusing solely on individual contribution
- Individuals uncomfortable with leadership roles
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
SUMMARY
AutoZone is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Order Management/Warranty/Dropship Engineering team. This position is responsible for development, maintenance, and support of microservices, data pipelines, consumers, producers and batch applications. Additionally, need to ensure applications are built with stability and reliability. This includes applying domain knowledge, using technical skills, leading, and mentoring less experienced AutoZoners, supporting the customers, resolving problems, and training as required.
Responsibilities:
- Create, test and support software applications
- Participate in design sessions with IT Architects and produce high- and low-level designs as necessary
- Collaborate with other engineers in the team to deliver new capabilities. Coach and mentor other team members as needed
- Quickly and effectively troubleshoot problems in development and production environments
- Responsible for others’ accurate work planning and execution, accurate project time tracking
- Review code and designs from other team members
- Provide suggestions on performance improvements of existing platform
- Coordinate with product owners and business partners to gather requirements and document them as needed
- Provide production support and being active team member of on-call rotation
- Able to perform tasks with little or no technical supervision with solid problem solving, domain technical and analytical skills
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
- 7 plus years of experience and expertise in Java, Spring Framework, and Spring Boot
- Advanced task estimation and planning skills
- Able to perform tasks with little or no technical supervision
- Experience using Relational Databases (ex. Oracle/Informix/SQL Server etc.) and writing SQL queries
- Must be a team player with great interpersonal and communication skills; time-management skills are critical
- Advanced knowledge of Java and all its products, from frameworks to libraries
- Software debugging skills
- Knowledge of cloud technologies
- Carrying out application releases
- Efficient and error-free coding
- Project collaboration
- Creating high-availability applications
- Software analysis and error checking
Nice to have:
- Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience in Bash scripting/Linux system administration
- Any search engine experience (especially Elasticsearch)
- Experience using Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ or any messaging broker is a plus
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.
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