Principal Engineer

suitsupply; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working Amsterdam HQ

40% Suitsupply discount

Top IC role with direct line to senior

Job summary

Suitsupply in Amsterdam is looking for a Principal Engineer who will design, implement and ship across domains, setting engineering standards and driving AI-native ways of working. You will split time between accelerating projects within teams and raising cross-cutting standards that all teams adopt.

You will own the cross-cutting standards backlog, drive migrations and integrations, and partner with leadership to raise the bar across the engineering organization while shipping high-quality code

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience across multiple domains.
• Staff- or principal-level scope at a strong product or tech company.
• Hands-on across the stack and shipping code weekly.
• Experience with AI-native development and enterprise-scale systems.
• Ability to explain technical concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Set the standard: own cross-cutting standards backlog for domains; enforce code quality and compliance in merges.
• Stay in the code: design, prototype and build on hard cross-team problems.
• Jump-start delivery: lead technical discovery and initial implementation with teams.
• Embed, don't tower: work inside teams with Tech Leads and Engineering Managers.
• Enforce through systems: automated checks and guardrails scale without hand-review of merges.
• Make us AI-native: drive agentic development across the organization.
• Cover the gaps: join teams lacking a Tech Lead to keep delivery on track.
• Pair at the top: collaborate with Engineering Leadership on domain architecture.

Job description

At Suitsupply, we combine radical style with radical technology. We are looking for a Principal Engineer - the most senior hands‑on engineer in the company: you design, you build, and you ship alongside our teams. You set the engineering standard for an entire domain, and you make it stick - in the code, in the pipelines, and in how our teams adopt AI‑native ways of working. Expect a roughly 50/50 split: half your time accelerating projects inside teams, half driving the cross‑cutting standards everyone works to.

What you will do:

• Set the standard: own the cross-cutting standards backlog for your domains - unified observability and monitoring, alerting, release and deployment processes, CI/CD templates, and shared packages - and make them binding: non‑compliant code does not merge.
• Stay in the code: design, prototype and build on the hardest cross‑team problems - the migrations, integrations and foundations no single team can own.
• Jump‑start delivery: parachute into projects that need momentum - run the technical discovery, shape the solution, get the first implementation moving with the team. You accelerate teams.
• Embed, don't tower: work inside teams to raise the bar in place, pairing with Tech Leads and Engineering Managers.
• Enforce through systems: skills‑per‑repo, PR guardrails and automated checks carry the standard, so it scales without you hand‑reviewing every merge.
• Make us AI‑native: drive agentic development as the default way of working, on a drumbeat you set with the Engineering Managers.
• Cover the gaps: step into teams without a Tech Lead to keep delivery and quality on track while we hire.
• Pair at the top: partner with Engineering Leadership on domain architecture. You set the standard; the Tech Leads spread it.

Who you are:

• 10+ years of engineering, with recent staff‑ or principal‑level scope at a strong product or tech company.
• You have carried technical responsibility across at least three domains - not one deep silo. This is a hard requirement.
• You have joined an existing ecosystem and changed it - change management in a landscape you didn't build is core to this job; greenfield‑only track records don't clear the bar.
• Hands‑on across the stack and still shipping code weekly; deep in at least one of .NET and Azure event‑driven backends, large‑scale commerce ecosystems, or integration and data platforms.
• You have made standards stick across teams that didn't report to you - through tooling, guardrails and example, not decks.
• Already ahead of us on AI‑assisted and agentic development at enterprise scale - multi‑team, inside an existing ecosystem. We expect to learn this from you, not to teach it to you - and you can show a team or codebase you made measurably faster.
• You explain hard things simply - to engineers, to product, to the board. If you truly know it, you can say it plainly.
• Zero direct reports, by design - and that suits you. Your authority is technical, and on domain standards it is final.

What you will get:

• Competitive compensation - we benchmark this role against the top of the Dutch tech market, not against retail. A freelance‑first start is possible if that is how you work.
• A real top‑of‑ladder IC seat: final say on domain standards, a direct line to the Head of Engineering and the Director, and no management detour required to keep growing.
• Scale that shows: ~16 product teams, a global Shopify migration, own‑built Custom Made and Radical Personal platforms, and an ERP transition - with the mandate to make it all AI‑native.
• Autonomy without layers of sign‑off
• Hybrid working: three days in the Amsterdam HQ, two remote - flexible in both directions once you're up to speed.
• A 40% discount on Suitsupply product, and a working wardrobe you'll actually want to wear.