Software Engineer - Operational Intelligence

Job description

SOFTWARE ENGINEER -
OBSERVABILITY, GROUP DIGITAL

WHY WE WILL LOVE YOU
We are looking for a passionate Software Engineer who strives for engineering excellence and excels in
constantly changing environments. You are excited about open standards, modern technologies (cloud
native), innovative ways of working (cross-functional, autonomous, agile) and you want to take part in
shaping the future of IKEA!
As a person you have a proven ability to develop high quality digital services using and applying good
practices and open standards. You have a curious nature, and actively acquire new knowledge and skills,
using them to adopt new methods and processes to improve performance. On the same side you are
happy to share your knowledge and help everyone around you to grow as individual engineers and
strong engineering teams.
You will become part of the Observability Pipeline team and contribute to the modernization of our
observability capabilities. We are on a journey to build modern services that enable developers to use
our framework as code within their existing CI/CD pipeline on an enterprise scale, to deliver full
observability throughout our digital landscape.
The IKEA culture and values are very much a part of our business and day to day work life. For you to
thrive and grow with IKEA it’s important for us that you share our values! You can read more regarding
our values and life at IKEA on our website www.ikea.com or just watch this video: https://bit.ly/ikeawhat-
if.
We believe a healthy and flexible life balance is important, so together we will strive to create a work
environment where you feel in control of your life balance, can be yourself, grow and excel in both your
personal and professional life.
At IKEA, we welcome all dimensions of diversity. A diverse and inclusive workplace is good for our coworkers,
for our customers and for our business. Working with differences helps us grow both as
individuals and as an organization. ... Simply put: we believe the uniqueness of every individual makes
IKEA better!

To succeed as Software Engineer you have:
• knowledge and experience of Go, Java, or Python
• experience with cloud architecture and services on Google Cloud Platform
• knowledge of architecture concepts such as microservices, event driven architecture, cloud native
technology, terraform and open frameworks such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Zipkin and Jaeger
• good knowledge in how to transform and optimize the areas of logs, traces and metrics
• experience of working in an agile environ
ment
• passionate about coaching others

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Software Engineer you will be responsible for designing and delivering high quality digital services
and engineering to support consumers across IKEA to be more efficient and reach the many people.
Together with your colleagues, you will coach engineers and promote modern software engineering
and development principles and practices, use proper tools, and increase automation to enable the
specified business outcomes and create a strong digital foundation for IKEAs Digital products and
business.

Among many tasks you will:
• Design, develop and deliver solutions that support business initiatives on their Observability
journey using a combination of open standards and frameworks as well as SaaS solutions
• Design and educate in ways of working for other engineers while encouraging good practices
when working with open source and frameworks
• Design, develop and promote a strong observability capability offering that ensures a resilient
foundation
• Ensure framework compliance towards legislations, policies or other requirements in order to
stay compliant from a pipeline perspective
• Take responsibility for cooperation and align key stakeholders throughout the IKEA Group with
interdependencies towards Group Digital to develop Product/Service design and technical
roadmaps
In this role you will report to the Engineering Manager in Observability Pipeline team within the area of
Operational Intelligence.

ABOUT THIS WORK AREA
Group Digital set the digital agenda to keep IKEA leading in an uncertain and fast-moving
environment. We drive the development, provision and operation of our digital products and services
through the use of new and existing technology and agile delivery methods to deliver at pace. At the
same time, we provide a home for digital skills to both develop and extend the technical, people and
business skills needed to ensure continuous development and growth of our digital capability.

QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!
If you have any questions about the role, please reach out to
Mattias Larsson Engineering Manager Observability Pipeline:
mattias.larsson4@ingka.ikea.com
For questions about the recruitment process, please reach out to Recruiter Reinier Bekker at
reinier.bekker@ingka.com

We’re the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. Together we work to find new digital solutions for every business need to help make IKEA a great and efficient place to work. We like to think of ourselves as innovative and modern, and we believe that nothing would actually work without us.