Software Engineer III

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Date: May 29, 2025

Location: Chicago, IL, US, 60607

Company: McDonald's Corporation

Company Description: 

McDonald’s growth strategy, Accelerating the Arches, encompasses all aspects of our business as the leading global omni-channel restaurant brand. As the consumer landscape shifts we are using our competitive advantages to further strengthen our brand. One of our core growth strategies is to Double Down on the 3Ds (Delivery, Digital and Drive Thru). McDonald’s will accelerate technology innovation so 65M+ customers a day will experience a fast, easy experience, whether at one of our 25,000 and growing Drive thrus, through McDelivery, dine-in or takeaway.  

McDonald’s Global Technology is here to power tomorrow’s feel-good moments.   

That’s why you’ll find us at the forefront of transformative technology, exploring new and innovative ways to serve our millions of customers and spread happiness one delicious Hot Fudge Sundae-dipped fry at a time. Using AI, robotics and emerging tech, we’re digitizing the Golden Arches. Combine that with our unparalleled global scale, and we’re reshaping all areas of the business, industry and every community that is home to a McDonald’s restaurant. We face complex tech challenges every day. But that’s where our diverse and talented teams come in. They’re made up of the best and brightest from all over the globe, and they thrive in the space where feel-good meets fast-paced.   

Check out the McDonald’s  Global Technology Technical Blog to learn how technology and our global team are directly enabling the Accelerating the Arches strategy.  

Department Overview

We are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to help own the transformation and ongoing standardization of our CI/CD pipelines and test and development environments. In this strategy and transformation-focused role, you will partner with our test automation teams, product engineering groups, and 3rd party engineering vendors to develop and drive CI/CD tool adoption and standardization, and development environment improvements. We’re looking at how to use CI/CD optimizations, cloud environments, and standardization technology to improve the development lifecycle and code quality.

Responsibilities

  • As a DevOps Engineer on the Digital DevOps team, you will play a pivotal role in evaluating the CI/CD pipeline and the development environments.
  • Identify and test solutions to transform environments and CI/CD tooling to improve scalability and leverage automation.
  • Help set standards for development teams to follow as part of their SDLC.
  • Coach junior engineers and knowledge share to help elevate team performance.
  • Lead initiatives and projects assigned to our team.
  • Present to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Partner and work with other teams, key collaborators, and leadership on multi-functional efforts.
  • Educate and advise development teams, comprising resources from the test automation, point of sale, digital applications, and backend systems, on how CI/CD standards, tooling and environments can help achieve their objectives; assist in bringing teams together to resolve repetitive issues in the CI/CD pipeline and development environments.
  • Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most meaningful priorities.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience with specialization in DevOps areas of focus.
  • Excellent coding and scripting skills (Bash, Python) and experience with implementing high-scale cloud architectures using modern, cloud-based container platforms (PaaS/SaaS)
  • Solid understanding of deployment automation solutions (i.e. Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
  • Solid, applied, knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and cluster management tools like Kubernetes (AWS EKS)
  • Experience with containers such as Docker
  • Experience with continuous integration and related tools such as Jenkins Pipelines, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, etc.
  • Implement capacity management as business practice for release environment management team working with other middleware and infrastructure teams.
  • Develop recommendations for improvements and strives to automate manual processes for existing tools and operations.

Additional Qualifications

  • Collaborate with Test Automation, CICD teams to improve automation capabilities.
  • Perform root-cause analysis of defects to identify and implement solutions and process improvements.
  • Lead workgroups formed by several disparate teams.
  • Experience with writing Terraform scripts
  • Experience with implementing Service Mesh with Istio
  • Experience working with API Gateway
  • Experience leading projects and teams
  • Experience presenting to non-technical and technical audiences
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, are hard-working and deliver high-quality results in a fast-paced environment.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong experience with GitHub Actions.
  • Experience with Internal Developer Portals
  • Experience with TeamCity
  • Experience with ArgoCD
  • Experience leading a small team and mentoring others.

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: Yes

Long - Term Incentive: Yes

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is $129,800.00 - $165,490.00 per year
 
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.

Additional Information: 

Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO). Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment.  

Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance. 

Long term Incentive eligible: This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald’s long-term incentive plan. 

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis. 

McDonald’s provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, disability status, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, protected military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. 

Nothing in this job posting or description should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment. 


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