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. We are unapologetic about who we are and what we’re after—bringing innovation and inspiration to every athlete* in the world. We look for athletes who can push boundaries, elevate our potential and continue leading us to greatness. The next tastemakers, playmakers, risk takers and glue players. Are you game?
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
We are looking for a hands-on technical leader with deep systems intuition, strong opinions held loosely, and a proven record of driving enterprise-wide outcomes.
A minimum of 10+ years of software and data engineering experience, including time as a senior or lead IC at a large-scale data-driven company.
Mastery of multiple backend languages (Java, Python, Scala) and deep expertise in distributed systems, data modeling, and API design.
Architect-level fluency with modern data platforms — Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Iceberg, Trino, dbt, or equivalents — and with streaming systems (Kafka, Flink).
Proven experience designing enterprise consumption layers — semantic/ontology layers, governed APIs, metric stores, agentic/LLM-powered analytics surfaces.
Strong cloud architecture expertise across AWS, GCP, or Azure: security, cost, resilience, multi-region.
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; equally comfortable in deep-code reviews and exec briefings.
Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science or related field — or equivalent experience.
Preferred: published technical writing, open-source contributions, prior experience leading data-product platforms at retail / commerce / consumer scale.
WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will shape the long-term technical direction of how Nike's enterprise consumes Marketplace and Nike Direct data.
You will define the multi-year architecture for our governed consumption layers — APIs, ontology/semantic models, agentic layers, and data quality systems.
You will drive a single source of truth for Nike Direct and Marketplace data across the enterprise, in partnership with BI Experience teams.
You will lead the aggressive simplification and unification of our data products landscape — picking which systems live, which get decommissioned, and how teams migrate safely.
You will co-design with BI Experience teams the agentic and AI-powered consumption experiences that change how business users discover health, insights, and actions.
You will set engineering standards (testing, observability, security, performance) and ensure they are adopted consistently across the org's repos.
You will influence the Platform team's toolkit, blueprints, and patterns to make sure they serve Marketplace data use cases at scale.
You will mentor Leads and Senior engineers across multiple squads, and represent the organization in cross-Nike architecture and governance forums.
You will write and ship code on the highest-leverage problems — staying close enough to the keyboard to make decisions credibly.
OUR HIRING GAME PLAN
01 Apply
Our teams are made up of diverse skillsets, knowledge bases, inputs, ideas and backgrounds. We want you to find your fit – review job descriptions, departments and teams to discover the role for you.
02 Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment
If selected for a corporate role, a recruiter will reach out to start your interview process and be your main contact throughout the process. For retail roles, you’ll complete an interactive assessment that includes a chat and quizzes and takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. No matter the role, we want to learn about you – the whole you – so don’t shy away from how you approach world-class service and what makes you unique.
03 Interview
Go into this stage confident by doing your research, understanding what we are looking for and being prepared for questions that are set up to learn more about you, and your background.
