Our Guiding Stars are the values at the heart of our organization that drive everything we do. We are committed to creating meaningful change not only in our industry but also in the communities we engage with. If our Guiding Stars resonate with you, we encourage you to consider joining our team.
- Drive Results: We think big, work smart, and execute fast to transform the future of commerce
- Cultivate Belonging: We welcome diverse backgrounds and experiences, driving positive change through inclusion and teamwork
- Champion Customers: We go the extra mile for our customers to help them unlock their full potential
- Adapt Boldly: We’re curious and innovative, we take risks and grow from our failures
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
- 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
💻 Learning & Development Budget
📚 Academy: Regular training sessions, access to Coursera and Babbel training courses
🙌 Our Benefits: Check them out here
⌚️ 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!
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.
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.
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What We Do
For global enterprises, commercetools provides the leading AI-first commerce platform that unifies commerce across any touchpoint, delivering unmatched revenue growth and performance. Our composable, cloud-native technology is the foundation for future innovation — from agentic commerce to conversational experiences — giving businesses the flexibility to design tailored, scalable commerce across any channel, at any scale.
By removing the constraints of legacy systems, commercetools enables companies to innovate freely, personalize at scale, and launch new channels quickly to meet the evolving demands of their customers. commercetools is trusted by some of the world's most iconic brands including Audi, Danone, Eurorail, NBCUniversal, Sephora and Volkswagen Group, and many more.
Why Work With Us
Our Guiding Stars are the values at the heart of our organization that drive everything we do: Drive Results, Cultivate Belonging, Champion Customers, and Adapt Boldly. We are committed to creating meaningful change not only in our industry but also in the communities we engage with.
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We embrace a hybrid-first work model, with employees near our offices collaborating in person three days a week. While we have remote employees around the globe, we are focusing future growth in select hubs to strengthen our culture and connections.
