Nike's Tech Stack and Engineering Culture

Nike is, increasingly, a software company that ships shoes. Its engineering organization runs a cloud-native, microservices-heavy architecture on AWS, with Kafka and Spark for data, Amazon Neptune for the social graph, GraphQL for API composition, and a unified customer data platform powering personalization. This module gives engineering candidates the technical fluency they need — and the context to understand the painful 2026 layoffs and tech consolidation.