Principal Data Engineer
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As a Principal Data Engineer your role involves architecting and developing the data intensive systems and services that will power the endtoend discovery and engagement focused journey making a direct impact on over 50 million Zalando customers across 25 countries and counting.
We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer with handson experience in building data pipelines and systems for ML systems to be part of the Inspiration and Entertainment mission to define drive and develop capabilities for discovering engaging content. We are looking for an experienced data leader to collaborate closely with engineers applied scientists and the wider Search Browse Personalization & Recommendations organization.
INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN
Zalando is Europes leading online platform for fashion connecting customers brands and partners across 25 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion logistics advertising and research bringing headtotoe fashion to more than 50 million active customers through diverse skillsets interests and languages our teams choose to use.
At Zalando our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity sexual orientation personal expression ethnicity religious belief or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture age or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit.
We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need so we can best support you throughout the hiring process.
our diversity & inclusion strategy:
employee resource groups: WED LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
Design build and maintain largescale data intensive systems and services for generating and surfacing personalized content to customers that is tailored to their interest.
Ensure the implementation of a stateoftheart software development methodology and cultivate best practices in software development. Operate a complex and advanced system landscape that meets the highest standards in terms of reliability performance and latency.
Developing new approaches to data storage evaluation ongoing maintenance and best practices that will be useful across the entire company including with structured and unstructured data.
Mentor junior to senior engineers and actively collaborate with other teams. Share knowledge and expertise within our talented engineering and science community.
Work closely with applied science and engineering leaders product managers designers and other business stakeholders to bring our stateoftheart solutions to the customers and to discover and identify new opportunities.
As part of our Principal Engineering Community you collaborate with other senior individual contributors to set engineering standards guide decisionmaking for the technology landscape at Zalando via our Tech Radar.
WED LOVE TO MEET YOU IF YOU HAVE
Expertise in the design and development of resilient scalable distributed systems in cloud infrastructure with a preference for proficiency in Kubernetes and AWS.
In depth experience in developing data pipelines for batch and stream processing using AWS services Databricks Airflow and similar technologies.
Excellent software engineering skills to design and implement effective solutions for data strategies in largescale production environments (data engineering data version control). You excel at and are enthusiastic about both delivering projects handson and leading development efforts.
Experience in making applications resilient and reliable through open tracing monitoring and load testing with a deep understanding of monitoring and maintaining data pipelines.
Strong communication skills and experience leading organizationwide collaborations with the ability and eagerness to understand the business context in which the team operates and the customer problems being solved.
Experience coaching and mentoring senior engineers and collaborating closely with applied scientists senior machine learning engineers and data scientists.
A strong advocate for agile processes operational excellence and adherence to coding best practices including clean code readability.
OUR OFFER
Zalando provides a range of benefits heres an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.
Employee shares program
40 off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando 30 off Zalando Lounge discounts from external partners
2 paid volunteering days a year
Hybrid working model with 60 (or more) remote per week actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration
Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
25 days of vacation a year (for Zalando SE)
Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
Family services including counseling and support
Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)
Mental health support and coaching available
Learn all about Zalando and our values here: Experience:
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