✦ Luna Orbit — System Administration

engineer senior, Retail and Consumer Technology- ST; Seattle, WA

at Starbucks

📍 2401 Utah Ave S #800, Seattle, Washington, United States Hybrid Posted April 16, 2026
Type Not Specified
Experience senior
Exp. Years 5+ years
Education Not specified
Category System Administration

Senior backend software engineer role focused on building and operating scalable, highly available order fulfillment services. You will design, implement, and debug production systems end-to-end on Microsoft Azure and support on-call rotations.

  • Write production code using C#/.NET and/or Go to build backend services
  • Design and implement scalable APIs, background workers, and event-driven services
  • Improve system latency, throughput, and availability through hands-on optimization
  • Own features and services from design through deployment and operations
  • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident root-cause analysis

Coding-first backend role using C#/.NET and/or Go on Microsoft Azure, with scalable APIs, background workers, and event-driven services. Emphasis on distributed systems, performance/availability optimization, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and production incident response; Kubernetes and Azure services are relevant.

The ideal candidate is a senior backend engineer with 5+ years building production backend services using C#/.NET and either Go. They have practical, real-world Microsoft Azure experience, a strong understanding of distributed systems and production debugging, and ownership experience including on-call support and incident response.

5+ years of experience building backend services in production environmentsStrong hands-on coding experience with C#/.NETfamiliarity with frontend frameworksPractical experience with Microsoft Azure in real production systemsProven experience building highly scalable and highly available servicesStrong understanding of concurrencynetworkingsecurity and distributed systemsExperience debugging issues across complex service environmentsExperience leveraging AI coding tools (Claude CodeCursorGitHub CoPilot or similar) in your daily workflowProven track record of end-to-end service ownership including on-call supportEffective partnership and collaboration with stakeholders
Experience with Kubernetescontainersor orchestrationFamiliarity with Azure services such as AKSFunctionsCosmos DBor Service BusExperience with edge computingIoTor globally distributed workloadsStrong observability and reliability mindset
Microsoft AzureC#/.NETGoKubernetesAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Azure FunctionsCosmos DBService BusClaude CodeCursorGitHub CoPilotCI/CD pipelinesinfrastructure-as-codedeployment automation
C#/.NETGoMicrosoft Azurescalable APIsbackground workersevent-driven serviceslatency optimizationthroughput optimizationavailability optimizationdistributed systemsconcurrencynetworkingsecuritydebugging production codeon-call supportincident responsepost-incident root-cause analysisCI/CD pipelinesinfrastructure-as-codedeployment automationKubernetesAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Cosmos DBService Busedge computingIoTobservabilityreliabilityClaude CodeCursorGitHub CoPilot
C#C#/.NET.NETGoMicrosoft Azurescalable APIsbackground workersevent-driven serviceslatency optimizationthroughput optimizationavailability optimizationdistributed systemsconcurrencynetworkingsecuritydebugging production codeincident responseroot-cause analysispost-incident root-cause analysisCI/CD pipelinesinfrastructure-as-codedeployment automationmanaged serviceson-call supportKubernetescontainersorchestrationAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Azure FunctionsCosmos DBService Busedge computingIoTobservabilityreliabilityClaude CodeCursorGitHub CoPilotAI coding tools
excellent communication skillsability to dive into codepartnership and collaboration with stakeholderspeer code review collaboration
Industry Retail
Job Function Design, build, and operate backend services for order fulfillment on Microsoft Azure with end-to-end ownership including on-call support
Role Subtype Backend Engineer
Tech Domains Azure, Kubernetes, Python, Linux, DevOps & SRE
Senior Software Engineerhands-on Senior Software EngineerC#/.NETC#.NETGoMicrosoft Azurebackend servicesscalable APIsevent-driven servicesbackground workershighly scalablehighly availableconcurrencydistributed systemsCI/CD pipelinesinfrastructure-as-codedeployment automationon-call rotationsincident responseroot-cause analysisClaude CodeCursorGitHub CoPilotKubernetesAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Cosmos DBService Busedge computingobservabilityreliabilityon-call support

5+ years of experience building backend services in production environments, Strong hands-on coding experience with C#/.NET, Practical experience with Microsoft Azure in real production systems, Proven experience building highly scalable and highly available services, Experience leveraging AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub CoPilot or similar) in daily workflow, Proven end-to-end service ownership including on-call support

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