Principal Software Engineer - Discovery
The Role & The Team
As a Principal Engineer in the Discovery team at Zalando, you will collaborate with exceptional engineers and science leaders to spearhead the strategy for building platform capabilities and machine learning (ML) infrastructure. You will work closely with the Discovery teams and the central machine learning productivity teams to define and drive the development of platform capabilities. This role involves mentoring junior to senior engineers, sharing knowledge within our engineering and science community, and architecting our machine learning platform capabilities to serve our 51 million customers.
Responsibilities
- Mentor and collaborate with engineers across teams, sharing expertise within our engineering and science community.
- Architect, design, and develop machine learning platform capabilities and infrastructure.
- Work closely with applied science and engineering leaders, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver state-of-the-art solutions.
- Drive the operationalization of solutions deployed in production and cultivate best practices in software development and MLOps.
- Operate a complex system landscape that meets high standards of reliability, performance, and latency.
What We’re Looking For
- Excellent software development skills for designing computationally effective solutions for ML operationalization and maintenance in large-scale production environments.
- Experience leading the architecture and design of new and current machine learning systems.
- Expertise in Python, Scala, and Spark.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Git, AWS EC2, S3, Databricks, SageMaker, Flink, PostgreSQL, Redis, or other RDBMS.
- Experience with ML products, especially deep learning applications in NLP, computer vision, and information retrieval.
- Experience with deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch is a plus.
- Experience building, deploying, and operating data-driven systems in a cloud environment.
- Good communication skills and experience leading organization-wide collaborations.
- Ability to understand the business context and customer problems being solved.
- Experience coaching and mentoring senior engineers and working closely with applied scientists and data scientists.
Zalando Benefits
- Employee shares program
- 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando
- 1 paid volunteering day a year
- Hybrid working model with 60% remote work per week
- 27 days of vacation a year
- Relocation assistance available
- Family services, including counseling and support
- Health and wellbeing options, including Gympass
- Mental health support and coaching available
Join Zalando and help us drive digital and sustainable solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising, and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 50 million active customers through a team of diverse skill-sets, cultural backgrounds, and interests.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Employee shares program
- 40% off fashion and beauty products
- 1 paid volunteering day a year
- Hybrid working model
- 27 days of vacation a year
- Relocation assistance
- Family services
- Health and wellbeing options
- Mental health support
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