✦ Luna Orbit — System Administration

engineer lead, Backend Services- ST; Seattle, WA

at Starbucks

📍 2401 Utah Ave S #800, Seattle, Washington, United States Hybrid Posted April 16, 2026
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Position Details

Type Not Specified
Experience lead
Exp. Years 8+ years
Education Not specified
Category System Administration

About this role

Lead engineer responsible for architecture and technical leadership of mission-critical backend services. The role combines hands-on .NET development with distributed systems and edge-aware design, plus reliability practices and engineering mentorship.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and design of scalable, resilient backend services running across cloud and edge environments
  • Make and guide critical technical decisions involving system design, data models, APIs, messaging, and infrastructure
  • Drive adoption of cloud-native and edge-aware patterns (microservices, event-driven systems, caching, eventual consistency, offline/low-latency scenarios)
  • Design, develop, and review high-quality .NET (C#) code for backend services
  • Champion reliability practices such as monitoring, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, and incident response

Technical Overview

You will lead design and development of scalable, resilient backend services using C# and .NET (Core/8+) on Microsoft Azure, leveraging managed services and infrastructure-as-code. The role emphasizes edge & distributed systems patterns (microservices, event-driven systems, caching, eventual consistency, offline/low-latency scenarios) and reliability engineering (monitoring, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, incident response).

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a lead backend engineer with 8+ years of software engineering experience and at least 2 years as a tech lead influencing multiple teams. They are hands-on with C# and .NET (Core/8+) building production-grade backend services on Microsoft Azure, with strong expertise in distributed and edge-aware systems, reliability practices (SLIs/SLOs, incident response), and mentoring/architecture leadership.

Must-Have Skills

8+ years of professional software engineering experiencesignificant experience leading complex backend systemsMinimum 2 years of experience as a tech lead or staff-level engineer influencing multiple teamsStrong expertise in C# and .NET (Core/8+) for building production-grade servicesDeephands-on experience with

Tools & Platforms

C#.NETMicrosoft Azureinfrastructure-as-codeSLIs/SLOs

Required Skills

C#.NET (Core/8+)backend servicesMicrosoft Azuremicroservicesevent-driven systemscachingeventual consistencyoffline/low-latency scenariosinfrastructure-as-codeglobal distributiondistributed systemsedge environmentssynchronizationdata replicationfailure handlingmonitoringalertingSLIs/SLOsincident responseobservabilitycode reviewsdocumentation

Hard Skills

C#.NETC# (C#/.NET).NET (Core/8+)backend servicesdistributed systemscloudedge environmentsmicroservicesevent-driven systemscachingeventual consistencyoffline/low-latency scenariosMicrosoft Azuremanaged servicesinfrastructure-as-codeglobal distributionhigh throughputlow latencydata modelsAPIsmessaginginfrastructuresynchronizationdata replicationfailure handlingnetwork variabilitypartial connectivitydevice/resource constraintsmonitoringalertingSLIs/SLOsincident responsecode qualitytestingobservabilitydocumentationon-call readinesscode reviews

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoring engineerssetting engineering standardsarchitecture decisions guidanceconstructive code reviewspartner closely with productprogram managementand operationsinfluence without authorityownership and continuous improvement

Industry & Role

Industry Retail
Job Function Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering for resilient backend services across cloud and edge using C#/.NET
Role Subtype Platform Engineer
Tech Domains Azure, Kubernetes, DevOps & SRE

Keywords for Your Resume

Lead Engineerengineer leadBackend Servicestech leadstaff-level engineerC#.NET.NET (Core/8+)backend servicesMicrosoft Azurecloudedge environmentsdistributed systemsmicroservicesevent-driven systemscachingeventual consistencyoffline/low-latency scenariosglobal distributionhigh throughputlow latencydata replicationfailure handlingnetwork variabilitypartial connectivitymonitoringalertingSLIs/SLOsincident responsecode reviewsobservabilityinfrastructure-as-codemanaged services

Deal Breakers

8+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant experience leading complex backend systems, Minimum 2 years of experience as a tech lead or staff-level engineer influencing multiple teams, Strong expertise in C# and .NET (Core/8+) for building production-grade services, Hands-on experience designing systems across cloud and edge environments

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