Principal Software Engineer - Engineering Platform

• Technical Leadership: Serve as a technical leader (m/f/d) on our platform, providing guidance, support, and best practices to developers and product organization
• Community Building: Foster and grow a vibrant and engaged global developer community by organizing meetups, hackathons, and other community-driven activities
• Advocacy and Outreach: Act as an advocate for our platform, engaging with developers, senior management and communities through events, conferences, webinars
• Feedback Loop: Gather feedback from the developer community and relay insights to internal teams to drive continuous improvement of our platform
• Platform Engineering Practices: Set the foundation for how we build, operate, and evolve our Engineering Platform to empower developers and drive business success. Key focus areas include: AI-driven Engineering, Platform Maturity & KPIs, Developer Portals & Developer Experience
• Software Engineering Practices: Lead initiatives to define, promote, and implement best practices in software/system engineering within the developer community. This includes: Process Optimization, Code Quality, Performance and Scalability, Security, Innovation
• Collaboration: Work closely with product and engineering teams to align evangelism efforts with product development and engineering strategies

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in system or software development, technology evangelism or a related role within software engineering, at least 3-5 years of work experience in Europe
• Software Development: Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks like Typescript, Java, Kotlin GoLang, Terraform
• Process Optimization: Expertise in integration/deployment (CI/CD) tools and practices (GitHub Actions, Flux, Argo CD)
• Code Quality: Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and static code analysis - e.g. JUnit, Selenium, SonarQube or ESLint
• Performance and Scalability: Knowledge of microservice / scalable system design and cloud services within Google Cloud Platform, Azure or AWS
• Security: Understanding of secure coding practices and common security vulnerabilities (e.g. OWASP Top Ten) and ability to incorporate security best practices into development lifecycle
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English (German is a plus), with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Proven experience in building and nurturing developer communities
• A genuine passion for technology, innovation and empowering developers

• 30 days vacation & subsidized company pension plan
• Employees discount & Fitness Collaborations
• Training & Education
• Open corporate culture & Teamwork
• Mobile work

MediaMarktSaturn Technology is working to make Europe's number-one consumer electronics retailer the technology leader in its industry. To this end, several hundred developers, UX designers and system architects using state-of-the-art technology work hand in hand with business owners in agile teams to develop customer-focused technology solutions for more than 6 million customers every day in 11 countries.Your HR contactLea Ellerich****Phone number:+49 (151) 40631813Let's Go!Ready? We are looking forward to receiving your application!Apply now