Principal Engineer - AdTech

ZipRecruiter; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 80.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Join a leading local delivery platform as a Principal Engineer in Berlin, working with a talented team dedicated to building innovative advertisement solutions for partners. The role offers the opportunity to contribute significantly to high-availability solutions, optimize technical processes, and lead initiatives that impact the local delivery market.

Leistungen

27 days holiday

Educational Budget of €1,000

Health Checkups

Gym and Bicycle Subsidy

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Meal Vouchers

Qualifikationen

• 12+ years of experience in building scalable, distributed systems.
• Proficient in Golang and Python.
• Skilled in cloud environments such as AWS and GCP.

Aufgaben

• Collaborate with teams to define technical objectives and deliver value.
• Lead discussions on architecture and drive technical standards.
• Conduct reviews on system reliability and security.

Kenntnisse

Golang

Python

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Kubernetes

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Redis

Monitoring tools

Jobbeschreibung

Job Description

As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.
Job Description
We are on the look out for a Principal Engineer to join our AdTech tribe. Contribute to the creation of our next- platform, that helps our partners - such as restaurants but also local shops - to scale their business. Work on our internal AdTech platform that helps our partners to promote their best dishes and attract new clients. If you're a creative problem solver who is eager to deliver solutions and hungry for a new adventure, an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!
About AdTech Tribe
AdTech tribe is a geographically distributed tribe of 16+ squads. We are here to build high-available advertisement solutions for the local delivery market. Our solutions are helping our vendors to attract and retain clients as well as helping users of our platforms to open new tastes and find new favorite dishes. Our solutions are running globally from LATAM to APAC and serving out clients via mobile and web applications.
We deploy often and move quickly with self-sufficient cross-functional squads that work collaboratively according to the “we build it, we run it” principle. We optimize our solutions for high load and high reliability, high availability and low latency. We leverage microservices architecture principles and patterns, micro-frontends, inner-sourcing, batch and streaming data processing.

• Collaborate closely with Engineering and Product to define technical OKRs and deliver high value to stakeholders and customers.
• Lead architecture discussions across domains and tribes, representing the tribe in reviews, identifying improvements, and challenging the status quo.
• Set high engineering standards through mentorship (especially for Senior and Staff engineers) and by leading with best practices.
• Drive future-oriented technical decisions via RFCs and similar tools, aligning teams on scalable solutions and improvements.
• Conduct regular reviews on reliability, scalability, cost-efficiency, and security at the tribe level.
• Promote best practices, foster knowledge sharing, and contribute to an effective, scalable org structure aligned with delivery flow.
  

Qualifications

• 12+ years of building and delivering scalable, distributed systems using microservices, APIs, and data processing (streaming & batch).
• Proficient in Golang and Python, with strong knowledge of storage systems like MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
• Skilled in AWS, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code, with experience in cloud cost optimization.
• Familiar with tools like Kibana, Prometheus, and DataDog, with a strong focus on scalability, monitoring, and reliability.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives across teams, work independently or collaboratively, and empower others through pragmatic decision-making.
• Excellent in written and verbal English, capable of clearly explaining complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  

Additional Information
Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week
• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service
• We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.
• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Yoga, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy
• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan
• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts. Courses.
  

Ready to join our team? If you’re excited to grow, collaborate and be part of the world’s leading delivery platform, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today!
We believe diversity and are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, beliefs, , origin, gender identities or expressions, orientations, , marital or statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just include it in your application. You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.
We believe diversity and are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, beliefs, , origin, gender identities or expressions, orientations, , marital or statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just include it in your application. You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.