About Gap Inc.
Our past is full of iconic moments — but our future is going to spark many more. Our brands — Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy and Athleta — have dressed people from all walks of life and all kinds of families, all over the world, for every occasion for more than 50 years.
But we’re more than the clothes that we make. We know that business can and should be a force for good, and it’s why we work hard to make product that makes people feel good, inside and out. It’s why we’re committed to giving back to the communities where we live and work. If you're one of the super-talented who thrive on change, aren't afraid to take risks and love to make a difference, come grow with us.
About the Role
We are looking for a Staff Engineer – Data Integration with 7+ years of experience to provide architectural leadership while remaining deeply involved in day-to-day technical and operational activities. This role owns the stability, performance, and evolution of enterprise integration platforms across messaging, streaming, batch, ETL, and EDI systems.
What You'll Do
Responsibilites:
- Define and maintain enterprise integration architecture and reference patterns.
- Drive modernization of integrations to event-driven and streaming-based designs.
- Decide platform usage patterns for Kafka vs MQ vs RabbitMQ based on workload.
- Ensure high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance across integration systems.
- Govern schema evolution, backward compatibility, and versioning strategies.
- Review, design, and approve integration flows, message schemas, and data contracts.
- Actively participate in production monitoring for Kafka, MQ, RabbitMQ, ETL, and batch jobs.
- Perform daily health checks on integration platforms (throughput, lag, queue depth, failures).
- Lead triage and resolution of production issues, including Sev-1 and Sev-2 incidents.
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and drive permanent fixes and preventive actions.
- Review and optimize Kafka topics, partitions, consumer groups, MQ queues, and exchanges.
- Ensure batch and ETL jobs meet performance SLAs and data accuracy requirements.
- Oversee EDI transaction flows, partner onboarding, and issue resolution.
- Validate deployments, configuration changes, and releases to integration platforms.
- Enforce operational runbooks, SOPs, and on-call readiness for integration systems.
Technical Skills
- Provide hands-on guidance and troubleshooting for complex integration implementations.
- Review critical code changes, ETL logic, batch frameworks, and messaging configurations.
- Lead design and technical reviews for high-impact integration initiatives.
- Guide teams on performance tuning, retry mechanisms, idempotency, and error handling
- Define monitoring, alerting, and observability standards for integration pipelines.
- Ensure integration platforms comply with security, audit, and data governance policies.
- Partner with SRE and Infra teams to improve resilience, DR, and capacity planning.
- Drive automation for operational tasks and repetitive manual activities.
Behavioural Competencies
- Mentor senior and staff engineers on integration best practices.
- Support product and business teams by translating requirements into operationally sound solutions.
- Act as escalation point for complex technical and operational issues.
Influence roadmap decisions based on operational insights and production realities
Who You Are
- 7+ years of experience in enterprise integration, middleware, or data engineering.
- Strong hands-on expertise in:
- Kafka, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ
- Batch processing and ETL frameworks
- EDI integrations
- Proven experience operating high-volume, mission-critical integration platforms.
- Strong understanding of event-driven systems, asynchronous messaging, and data consistency.
- Demonstrated experience handling production operations at scale.
Benefits at Gap Inc.
- One of the most competitive paid time off plans in the industry
- Comprehensive health coverage for employees, same-sex partners and their families
- Health and wellness program: free annual health check-ups, fitness center and Employee Assistance Program
- Comprehensive benefits to support the journey of parenthood
- Retirement planning assistance
- See more of the benefits we offer.
Gap Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. We have received numerous awards for our long-held commitment to equality and will continue to foster a diverse and inclusive environment of belonging. In 2022, we were recognized by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers and one of the Best Employers for Diversity.
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