Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure Event Streaming as a Service in Berlin bei Zalando

As part of the Cloud Infrastructure department you will be improving, extending, and operating Zalando’s core cloud infrastructure platform. While supporting the Head of Engineering in general strategy and technical advice your focus will be on the Event Streaming platform which enables all development teams to communicate at scale between services and builds the bridge to the central data lake. Built on top of Apache Kafka and KStreams, the Event Streaming platform provides a fast and efficient solution to many of Zalando’s application developers. You will help to continuously improve the user experience, cost efficiency and reliability of our products.

WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED

• Very good software engineering skills and fundamental knowledge of engineering principals across the software development life cycle

• Display ownership for our services from problem formulation, inception to solution design, as well as delivery and operations.

• Closely collaborate with Product Management (and other roles) to refine the functional requirements and build test cases to be verified during development and feature release.

• Suggest and drive solutions that simplify the technical architecture of individual services or pay down technical debt.

• Openness to grow less experienced engineers and new joiners.

• Live operational excellence, including deployment automation, observability and general resilience of our platform products

• Support Zalando developers in effectively using our platform services through documentation, support requests, training, etc.

• Investigate issues in software, libraries, and cloud infrastructure.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• +5 years of recent industry experience as a Senior Systems or Senior Software Engineer

• Production grade knowledge in Java, Go, coupled with excellent general software engineering skills

• Experience with Kafka and other relevant messaging solutions

• Experience with KStreams, Flink, or Databricks

• Experience in software and API design is a plus, including binary protocols

• Experience with microservices architecture at scale and distributed systems

• Experience building and operating large-scale applications in in production

• Deep knowledge in relevant AWS services and/or Kubernetes experience is a plus

PERKS AT WORK

• A workplace run on trust, empowerment and feedback; positive, inspiring working atmosphere

• Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings

• Mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts

• Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

ABOUT ZALANDO

Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 25 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 52 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.

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Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via email.

Stanislava Zapototska

stanislava.zapototska@zalando.de

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