Principal Engineer, Database - Developer Platform (All Genders)

Be our next Hero! - Join the world’s leading local delivery platform.

We are looking for aPrincipal Engineer, Databaseto join our Developer Platform tribe on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

You will work on global strategic initiatives aiming to build a world-class developer experience, taming the ever growing complexity of cloud applications. This is a great opportunity to help shape the future ways we build, run, and operate software in a large scale and global environment.

If you’re a creative problem solver who is hungry for a new adventure, an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!

Your Mission:

• Set standards for Engineering excellence by leading by example and mentorship.

• Drive technological improvements (through RFCs or other tools), explain, discuss and align decisions paving the future of our solutions.

• Be an active partner for Engineering and Product Management in order to provide the best value for stakeholders and our customers.

• Participate in code reviews, debugging and diagnosis.

• Contribute to architecture reviews, challenge the status quo and identify improvement points for individual components, as well as solutions for the business problem we’ve set to solve.

• To learn new technologies in depth, share this knowledge with the rest of the organization, mentor other team members.

• Help building and shaping an organization that has deep knowledge of how to use and troubleshoot data management and streaming solutions.

Your Heroic Skills:

• In-depth knowledge of a database, data messaging or streaming technologies such as: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, DynamoDB

• 12+ years of experience building and delivering solutions using databases (SQL/noSQL), data streaming, or message queue technologies.

• You have the ability to lead and drive technical initiatives across multiple teams.

• Significant experience building and delivering solutions at scale

• Demonstrated ability to pick up new technologies and leverage insights from existing expertise.

• Deep understanding of software architecture, scalability and stability

• You are pragmatic, and focused on empowering others

• Ability to work independently as well as in a group.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge of AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code

• Knowledge or programming languages such as Java, Python or Golang

• Understanding of monitoring tools such as Kibana, Prometheus, and DataDog

• Experience with cloud cost optimization

• Experience in both microservices and monoliths, API- and event-based communication.

About us:

As the world’s leading local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. From prepared meals to groceries, flowers, coffee, medicine. We deliver whatever you need. We operate in over 72 countries across Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa and are also pioneering quick commerce, the next generation of e-commerce. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, we work with a global ecosystem of employees, riders, and partners, and are at the forefront of innovation.

As one of our Heroes, you’ll work in an international and dynamic environment, with other Heroes from every corner of the globe where you can grow and develop your career with the right support, every step of the way. We are building a company that future generations can be proud of and are committed to welcoming everyone to our table. Delivery Hero has a lot to offer when it comes to benefits: we want to empower our Heroes and that means caring about all aspects of their wellbeing, such as: career, community, social, physical and financial. Learn more about our benefits at Delivery Hero here.

At Delivery Hero, we believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. Just be yourself and we can’t wait to see what value you bring to the role. We’re as interested in your character as we are in your talent.

Have we sparked your interest? If you are looking for an environment where our company DNA is defined by our values and People Leader Principles, please apply and send us your CV using the online form. Please note, we do not accept applications via email.