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Staff Engineer - Data Platform

Best Buy
Minneapolis, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 5/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/3/2026
As the Staff Engineer - Data Platform, you will be driving technical design for enterprise data management platform. You will be supporting platform adoption and scale actions with engineering teams across platform team and broader Digital, Analytics and Technology organization. By bringing deep technical expertise and knowledge of data platform use, you will be able to bring cohesive and impactful platform outcomes to life.

This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days at our corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota, and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

What You’ll Do

  • Understanding technical gaps and platform opportunities clearly
  • Use expertise and industry knowledge to influence technical vision
  • Drive complex problem solving with cross-functional teams at different maturity levels
  • Guide engineers with concrete methods and approaches to build quality at scale
  • Balance technology and platform product goals to achieve a cohesive direction and execution

Basic qualifications

  • 5 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent relevant professional experience
  • 3 years of developing distributed data processing in any cloud provider
  • 5 years hands on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • 5 years of performance tuning and optimization in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • 5 years of hands-on programming/coding with technologies such as Java, Python and SQL

Preferred Qualifications

  • 7 years of relevant professional experience
  • 2 years of data modeling to optimize/tune for efficient data stores
  • 2 years of reporting tools such as power bi, tableau, looker studio

What’s In It For You

We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.

Our Benefits Include

  • Competitive pay
  • Generous employee discount
  • Physical and mental well-being support

About Us

As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.

Position Type: Full timePandoLogic. Keywords: General Engineer, Location: Minneapolis, MN - 55423

Salary : $121,050 - $216,650

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