Salary
≈ $42k – $89k per year (Estimated)
Location
In office (Hyderabad)
Seniority
Staff · 10+ years exp
First seen by Alion on Aug 26, 2026.
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Petco is a pet specialty retailer and health and wellness company headquartered in San Diego, California, selling pet food, supplies and services such as grooming, dog training and veterinary care in stores and online. Founded in 1965 and listed on Nasdaq, it has more than 29,000 employees in over 1,500 stores across the US, Mexico and Puerto Rico, plus more than 250 Vetco Total Care hospitals, preventive care clinics and eight distribution centers, and its Petco Love foundation supports animal adoption. It hires sales associates, dog trainers, veterinary technicians, hospital receptionists, store and general managers, warehouse workers and software engineers.
The Staff Software Engineer will architect, innovate, and create multidisciplinary technical and functional solutions to complex business problems. This position provides technical leadership to development and design teams and oversees all technical aspects of projects. This candidate must design and implement reusable services that are highly scalable, secure, performant, and low-cost to maintain and operate.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and lead the planning, design, and development of new software solutions.
- Work closely with product owners and other stakeholders to understand the requirements and design software solutions to meet the product requirements.
- Solve complex and ambitious problems by crafting elegant and impactful solutions and generating concise and effective analysis, reports, and presentations for both internal and external customers.
- Contributes to technical innovations along with defining coding standards.
- Mentors and supports other members of the software development team and contributes to software development best practices.
- Serves as an expert advisor to executives on the use of current and future technologies for optimal impact on current and future business strategies and results.
- Leads innovation across the organization by exploring new technologies, demonstrating how to leverage those discoveries through proof of concept and incorporating them into the platform.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Complies with all policies and standards.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a Related Field or Equivalent Experience Preferred.
- Typically, 10+ years of hands-on object-oriented programming in Java or Python, with expertise in developing and managing DevOps SDLC automation.
- Proven experience with the software development life cycle (SDLC), engineering tools management, and DevSecOps practices.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD workflows, API programming, and engineering services automation at scale.
- Expertise in architecting, implementing, and managing critical engineering tools to support global product development, including JFrog, SonarQube, Harness, Jira, Confluence, and Atlassian Marketplace solutions.
- Strong hands-on Java or Python programming skills with a deep understanding of software development, SDLC best practices, APIs (REST and GraphQL), and code security leveraging SCA, SAST, and DAST solutions.
- Advanced knowledge of CI/CD workflows, engineering tool integrations, cloud-native DevOps platforms, and observability/API solutions, for example, Sentry and SwaggerHub.
- Subject matter expertise in source code management, GitHub, and Bitbucket, including GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot for AI, repository migrations, and toolchain consolidation.
- Advanced proficiency in backend database development, including SQL programming, database schema design, implementation, and optimization for applications and automation development.
- Skilled in designing and implementing test automation frameworks and tools, Playwright, and BrowserStack, with expertise in unit testing, code coverage analysis, and enforcing quality gates for robust software delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions, define best practices, and refine technical roadmaps aligned to strategic objectives.
- Experienced in establishing KPI metric frameworks to measure engineering excellence, optimize workflows, and drive data-informed decision-making.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of driving results, inspiring teams, and operating effectively within Agile frameworks and practices.
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