Principal Platform Engineer

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🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Shopware

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2000

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💰 Venture Round on 2022-02

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Shopware is an innovative open-source ecommerce platform that empowers businesses to deliver seamless and unified commerce experiences across multiple channels. With a focus on flexibility and scalability, Shopware enables both B2B and B2C businesses to automate operations, integrate advanced features like AI and spatial commerce, and customize their shopping experiences without the need for extensive coding. Recognized as a leader in the digital commerce space, Shopware supports businesses in navigating the complexities of the ecommerce landscape, ensuring that they are future-ready and capable of sustainable growth.

📋 Description

• Build and operate the Data Platform as infrastructure for data ingestion, storage, and runtime environments • Own the architecture and reliability of the platform, from CDC ingestion through the three-tier data lake to the orchestration platform • Implement CDC ingestion via DMS/Lambda into the raw S3 layer • Own raw schemas and data contracts across 13 domains and approximately 180 schemas • Operate the Terraform-provisioned orchestration platform based on Step Functions, EventBridge, and Glue across the Raw, Curated, and Aggregated layers • Develop and maintain the associated CDC Terraform modules • Provision and operate OpenMetadata, including its catalog infrastructure • Provision and operate Superset for data queries and visualizations • Establish clear code boundaries, a merge-blocking contract check, and unambiguous incident escalation • Build observability and operational excellence with Datadog, incident response, SLOs, and SLIs • Participate in the on-call rotation • Implement governance and compliance architecture for retention periods, access controls, classification metadata, and deletion requests • Collaborate with Data & AI and the Principal Platform Engineer for Infrastructure • Ensure a self-service philosophy, golden paths, and quality standards across platform boundaries • Proactively raise trade-offs and risks with stakeholders and senior leadership

🎯 Requirements

• Strong hands-on AWS experience with Glue, Athena, Step Functions, EventBridge, Lake Formation, and S3 • Extensive Terraform experience creating and evolving shared modules • Practical experience with CDC pipelines • Experience with an Iceberg-based lakehouse architecture featuring Raw, Curated, and Aggregated layers • Familiarity with Kafka-based event streaming, including MSK and Glue Schema Registry • Experience with incident response, SLOs, and the secure operation of a platform • Strong cross-functional communication skills • Ability to capture individual requirements in the backlog rather than implementing them ad hoc • Ability to advocate for and explain technical positions to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders • Confident communication with senior leadership • Nice to have: Familiarity with dbt (dbt-athena) or Spark/pySpark • Nice to have: Experience establishing an on-call rotation • Nice to have: Experience working directly with Legal and Compliance stakeholders • Authorization to work and reside permanently in the respective country of residence will be requested in the application form

🏖️ Benefits

• Permanent employment offers long-term security • Flexible working hours • Options for mobile working and fully remote contracts • Freedom to choose your work hardware • Well-structured onboarding with a personal “buddy” • Inspiring work environment with committed colleagues and a dynamic community • Opportunities for personal growth and development • Company pension plan • Health and wellness programs • Regular team events • On-call compensation in line with the arrangements of other teams, starting on day one