Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- Software
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop core technology platforms, lead complex technical projects, and drive the adoption of AI within engineering initiatives, ensuring system reliability and scalability.
Your role in the team
- Within the Executive Principal Engineering team, we advance the long-term direction of the Zalando Group technology capabilities and assets, tackling the company's most complex and cross-cutting technical initiatives and challenges.
- As a Senior Principal Software Engineer, you will be operating across software systems, operations, data platforms, and emerging technology.
- You will shape core technology platforms, lead the early stages of cross-organizational technical efforts, and ensure engineering investments create durable capabilities centered on reuse, interoperability, and long-term scale.
- Leitfäden für Systeme und bereichsübergreifende technische Steuerung.
- Shape the design of systems, especially where scale, reliability, performance, and adaptability matter.
- Resolve the most important cross-cutting technical problems for the business.
- Create shared platforms and technical leverage.
- Identify where common systems, tools, and capabilities should be built once and used many times.
- Lead the early shaping of these efforts so teams can build on solid foundations, move faster, and focus on differentiated customer and partner value.
- Advance AI as a company capability.
- Führen Sie die unternehmensweite Einführung von KI als umfassende Engineering-Kompetenz voran, in Zusammenarbeit mit der wissenschaftlichen Leitung.
- Set the technical foundations for applying AI across products, platforms, and technology development so teams can leverage it effectively, safely, and at scale.
- Liefern Sie Wirkung durch praktische Beiträge bei entscheidender Arbeit, die in Teams eingebettet ist, die komplexe, hochriskante Probleme angehen.
- Provide design leadership, technical judgment, and hands-on problem solving that accelerates execution and improves outcomes.
- Set the bar for engineering quality and operational excellence.
- Raise the technical bar of the engineering organization through mentorship, leadership, and direct work on the systems and programs that matter most.
- Pflege der technischen Gemeinschaft und Branchenführung.
- Guide the company's technical communities, working closely with the Principal Engineering and Principal Applied Science communities.
- Spearhead and scale training and knowledge sharing formats.
- Scan the technology horizon.
- Identify technology developments and industry shifts that matter to the Zalando Group and its long-term technical direction.
- Evolve the Zalando Tech Radar by balancing standardization and local innovation, conducting targeted assessments of specific technology areas, and scaling the rollout of emerging and proven practices.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- You are comfortable leading versatile, complex, and high-stakes projects simultaneously across different business domains.
- You have deep expertise in architecting resilient, mission-critical distributed systems.
- System and data migrations are not alien to you.
- Customer focus drives your problem solving approach.
- Your deep understanding of engineering excellence required in building customer-facing products at scale enables you to guide delivery, unblock projects through hands-on work.
- You are a proactive technical leader who builds deep understanding of new domains quickly and brings others along.
- You embrace end-to-end ownership and have guided teams through mission-critical engineering initiatives, creating clarity and enabling others to do their best work.
- You have shaped and contributed to company-wide strategy and led teams through the aligned change management journey.
- AI is more than a buzzword to you, backed by concrete examples of how you leveraged new tools and methods to take delivery, quality, or engineering excellence to the next level.
- You have a proven track record of reporting into a Director of Engineering (or higher), proactively initiating and leading impactful technical initiatives in their scope of influence.
- You have exceptional leadership and communication skills, with clear proof points for inspiring teams and influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.
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What we offer
- Zalando offers a range of benefits, here is an overview of what you can expect.
- 27 days of holiday a year to start for full-time employees (+1 day for every calendar year up to 30 days).
- 40% Rabatt auf Mode- und Schönheitsprodukte, die von Zalando verkauft und versendet werden, 30% Rabatt auf Lounge by Zalando, Rabatte von externen Partnern.
- Family support, including counselling and dedicated services for parents and carers.
- Betriebliche Altersvorsorge.
- Employee shares programme.
- Health and wellbeing options, including Wellhub.
- Mental health support and coaching.
- Development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review.
- 2 paid volunteering days a year.
- Relocation assistance (subject to prior agreement).
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About Your Employer
Zalando SE
Zalando is the leading online fashion platform in Europe, connecting customers, brands, and partners in 17 markets. We offer the latest styles and trends from the best fashion brands around the world, all in one place. With Zalando, you can find the perfect outfit for any occasion, whether you're looking for casual wear, formal wear, or something in between. We also offer a wide range of sizes and styles to suit every customer's needs. Shop with us today and see why we're the leading fashion destination in Europe.
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- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Trade
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Senior Principal Software Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
