Principal Engineer - Cloud Architecture (m/f/x)

commercetools - we are:

• The competitive sort: We didn’t become the fastest growing, highest ever valued SaaS software company in digital commerce with nearly 100% year-over-year growth by sitting on the sidelines.
• Inspired: Continually exploring what’s possible — the innovators of headless commerce, the visionaries behind MACH — our patented tech has radically disrupted the world of enterprise ecommerce software - and we are just getting started. 
• Valued: Smart, strong, passionate individuals hailing from over 50 countries across the globe, speaking over 43 languages, and collectively embracing diversity, encouraging inclusion, and fostering a culture of caring.
• Driven: We push the limits, technology, and ourselves to retain the trust of some of the world’s leading and fastest growing brands every single day.

The Opportunity:

We recently crossed the threshold of 100 engineers, and are setting up a tech leadership track to enable us to grow further. By being one of the first Principal Engineers, you’ll shape the role itself and the tech leadership culture together with the Director of Tech Leadership, who you’ll report to.

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. We will add more regions, and potentially also more cloud providers, over the next few years. At the same time, our product teams should be able to deploy and operate their services efficiently. You help offer them the infrastructure they need to be successful.

Please note that for this role, we can currently offer full-remote work for candidates based in the European Union and in the United Kingdom.

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

Tech at commercetools:

We Are Open Source And Innovative By Design

🚀 We make rapid progress by being early adopters of React, Scala, and GraphQL

📋 We share & contribute to the open source community: https://github.com/sangria-graphql

⚙️ We <3 Automation and Machine Learning

We care about your Growth and Well-being

☀️ Remote Work: Up to 60 days/year from a country different from your base country  

💻 Open Learning & Development Budget

📚 ct Academy: Regular internal training sessions

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

🚀 Mindset & Growth: A diverse, creative workspace with an international culture & learning environment

Are you ready? Come grow with us!

🔍 Are you looking for something else? Check out our Career Page and our Website for more information.

We are all different and that is what makes us stronger! We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company better.

commercetools celebrates being a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. If your professional profile aligns with our specific hiring requirements and company culture, then we encourage you to apply. We will assess your competencies, future potential, approach to learning and self-development and passion, and not your age, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, genetics, or disability.