Principal Software Engineer - ITC

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team. NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It’s a place where passionate individuals come together to create the future of sport.

Who You'll Work With

You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager / Director of Engineering and serve as the most senior individual contributor in the organization. You will partner with Directors, Senior Architects, BI Experience leadership, Platform leadership, Data Governance, and Security to set the multi-year technical strategy for how Nike consumes Marketplace and Nike Direct data. You will be a technical force multiplier—your decisions influence dozens of teams and millions of dollars of TCO.

Who We Are Looking For

• A minimum of 10+ years of software and data engineering experience, including time as a senior or lead individual contributor at a large-scale data-driven company.
• Mastery of multiple backend languages, including Java, Python, and Scala, with deep expertise in distributed systems, data modeling, and API design.
• Architect-level fluency with modern data platforms such as Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Iceberg, Trino, and dbt, or equivalents, and with streaming systems such as Kafka and Flink.
• Proven experience designing enterprise consumption layers, including semantic or ontology layers, governed APIs, metric stores, and agentic or LLM-powered analytics surfaces.
• Strong cloud architecture expertise across AWS, GCP, or Azure, including security, cost, resilience, and multi-region design.
• A track record of driving large-scale simplifications, decommissions, and migrations across many teams.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical strategy, write influential design documents, and align senior leaders.
• Experience partnering with Platform, Security, and Governance organizations to shape enterprise standards.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, with comfort in deep code reviews and executive briefings.
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Preferred: published technical writing, open-source contributions, or prior experience leading data-product platforms at retail, commerce, or consumer scale.

What You'll Work On

• Shape the long-term technical direction of how Nike’s enterprise consumes Marketplace and Nike Direct data.
• Define the multi-year architecture for governed consumption layers, including APIs, ontology and semantic models, agentic layers, and data quality systems.
• Drive a single source of truth for Nike Direct and Marketplace data across the enterprise in partnership with BI Experience teams.
• Lead the simplification and unification of the data products landscape, determining which systems remain, which are decommissioned, and how teams migrate safely.
• Co-design agentic and AI-powered consumption experiences that change how business users discover health, insights, and actions.
• Set engineering standards for testing, observability, security, and performance and ensure consistent adoption across the organization’s repositories.
• Influence the Platform team’s toolkit, blueprints, and patterns to serve Marketplace data use cases at scale.
• Mentor Leads and Senior engineers across multiple squads and represent the organization in cross-Nike architecture and governance forums.
• Write and ship code on the highest-leverage problems while staying close enough to the keyboard to make decisions credibly.

NIKE, Inc. offers a generous total rewards package, a casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. NIKE, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.