Specialized distributor of water, wastewater, and fire protection infrastructure
Core & Main distributes water, wastewater, storm drainage, and fire protection products to municipalities and contractors from ~370 U.S. locations. The tech stack—SQL Server, Azure, Databricks, Power BI, Dynamics 365—reflects a wholesale business modernizing around cloud data infrastructure; active adoption of Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake signals movement toward unified analytics. Hiring velocity is accelerating across sales (183 open roles) and ops (90), while engineering and data teams remain lean (42 and 6 roles respectively), typical of asset-heavy distributors prioritizing go-to-market over platform build.
Core & Main is a public wholesale distributor specializing in water and wastewater infrastructure products and services. The company operates approximately 370 locations across the United States, serving municipalities, private water companies, and professional contractors in municipal, non-residential, and residential segments. With ~5,700 employees, the organization manages complex supply-chain logistics, vendor relationships, and on-site project support. Active projects span treatment plant management, design-build contracts, fire protection fabrication, and critical infrastructure work. Core challenges center on pricing optimization, inventory management, capacity planning, and margin improvement across a dispersed branch network.
SQL Server, Azure cloud services (App Service, Functions, Key Vault, Service Bus), Databricks, Power BI, Dynamics 365, and POS systems. The company is actively adopting Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake for analytics modernization.
St. Louis, Missouri. The company operates approximately 370 locations across the United States and is also hiring in Canada.
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