Principal Engineer Cloud Architecture

commercetools; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 85.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A progressive technology company based in Berlin seeks a Principal Engineer in Cloud Architecture. This role requires expertise in SRE or DevOps and a track record of leading cloud architecture improvements. You will enable teams to efficiently deploy services across multiple clouds, manage resources, and facilitate knowledge sharing. The organization promotes a diverse, international culture, offering competitive compensation, flexible work arrangements, and ongoing training opportunities.

Leistungen

Competitive compensation package

Workation up to 60 days/year

Access to training courses

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years in SRE or DevOps roles.
• 2+ years in a leadership role improving cloud architecture.
• Ability to analyze technical and organizational issues.

Aufgaben

• Enable teams to deploy services across multiple clouds and regions.
• Oversee cloud spending and efficiency.
• Lead communication on long-running initiatives.

Kenntnisse

SRE or DevOps experience

Cloud Architecture improvements

Kubernetes expertise

Project management

Agile environment experience

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Jobbeschreibung

The Opportunity:

As the Principal Engineer Cloud Architecture, you’ll work on challenging technical problems of an ambitious product. Our customers can choose to consume our APIs on GCP or AWS, and we offer multiple regions for each. Our product teams should be able to deploy and operate their services efficiently across them all. You help offer them the infrastructure they need to be successful.

Your Mission:

• Enable (new) teams to deploy their services across multiple clouds and multiple regions
• Ensure our infrastructure teams offer tooling and guidance to get new services started quickly
• Identify gaps in the cloud infrastructure we offer to our internal teams, and identify and implement suitable solutions together with the infrastructure teams
• Have an overview of cloud spending, help teams keep track, and identify opportunities to use cloud resources more efficiently
• Identify learning needs/skills gaps, and facilitate related technology knowledge sharing across the organization with the help of our internal knowledge management team
• You will kickstart improvements affecting multiple teams to improve our Cloud Architecture, as well as bringing your colleagues’ ideas to live
• Lead communication within the organization on long running initiatives, and make sure they get adopted successfully
• Closely collaborate with Head Of Product Infrastructure, the Principal Engineers for Service Architecture, Frontend Architecture and Product Security as well as the Staff Engineers in the Infrastructure group
• You contribute to the evolution our tech vision and promote it within the organization

What you need to succeed:

• A strong technical background and a proven track record in SRE or DevOps roles (5+ years)
• Experience improving a Cloud Architecture in a leadership role (2+ years)
• Experience with Kubernetes, and GCP or AWS (or both)
• Ability to analyze tech issues and related organizational issues
• Project management experience, especially for projects affecting multiple teams
• Experience working within an Agile environment with a strong customer focus
• Setting up trainings / onboardings and running them
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Fluent English to work in an international environment
• Great self-assessment mastery
• You are eager to share your knowledge and to constantly improve yourself and learn about leadership, new technologies and concepts

We care about your growth and well-being

Competitive Compensation Package: Generous compensation structure consisting of salary, a competitive stock option package, and various benefits and perks

Workation: Work up to 60 days per year in a country different from your home country, with up to 20 working days per trip

Academy: Regular training sessions, access to Coursera and Babbel training courses

Flexibility: Morning person or night owl? We believe in outcome and motivated employees

Mindset & Growth: A diverse workplace with an open, international culture, and learning environment

Come grow with us!

At commercetools, we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to fair hiring practices regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.