Software Engineer IV

Work Location Type: Hybrid

Req Number 323284

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

Compensation

The anticipated base pay compensation range for this position is $131,200.00 to $218,700.00.

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:

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 engineers across the organization to deeply understand how we can achieve a frictionless and joyful experience that drives systemic change in Grainger’s ability to deliver.
• Build partnerships with other shared services organizations such as SRE and Security to understand friction points across the organization.
• Collaborate with the Engineering Enablement Team to design and deliver impactful consulting sessions and immersive 'dojo' experiences that empower product engineering teams.
• Partner in AI Enablement, understand challenges faced by product teams and how AI can be a tool towards solving those challenges.
• Serve as a subject matter expert by providing hands-on development support during embedded engineering engagements, guiding product teams through all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Partner with the Delivery Insights Team to generate impactful insights that enhance engineering excellence and provide data-driven enablement strategies.
• Collaborate with the Core Engineering Team to advance our Internal Developer Portal (IDP), evolve our software templates, and drive the adoption of our shared workflows.
• Help shape and drive our overall Developer Experience (DevEx).

You Have:

• 10+ years of experience with software engineering in a large and distributed environment working across multiple teams.
• Demonstrated engineering empathy with a passion for pair programming, effectively supporting engineers at all skill levels by meeting them where they are in their learning journey.
• Cloud exposure (AWS / GCP / Azure) from the UI, API and CLI.
• Experience implementing infrastructure as code and automation.
• Knowledge of cloud-native event-driven microservices-based architectures including operational concerns such as performance, resiliency, observability, monitoring, discovery, and routing. (Kafka / AWS SQS)
• Experience with CI/CD principles and industry best practices to help drive the organizational culture and raise the bar on software delivery
• Good understanding of building and operationalizing containerized workloads at scale (Docker / Kubernetes), APIs, and web services.
• Experience as a full stack engineer with emphasis on Java, React and NextJS
• Experience tuning the performance, throughput and capacity of large-scale systems.
• Knowledge of common DevOps tools such as Ansible, GitHub, Terraform, etc.
• Experience using observability, monitoring and alerting frameworks and tooling (OTEL, DataDog / Dynatrace / Splunk)
• Experience with Atlassian products such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo.

Bachelors' degree in Engineering / Computer Science / Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience

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