Principal Software Engineer

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit.

We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process.

do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy

Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups

ABOUT THE ROLE & TEAM

The Campaign and Content Platforms team is building the technology that delivers inspirational content and retail campaigns for our customers. Content performance data we produce and manage is foundational to steering the business, operations and personalisation and optimisation systems. As a cross-functional domain team of 50+ engineers, product managers, product designers in Helsinki and Berlin, we build platforms that work for all teams, ensuring content goes through the same publishing pipelines and processes

WHAT WE'D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING) You will take responsibility for our department's Data Products architecture, development and quality

You will design, build, and maintain scalable ELT pipelines using Databricks Delta Live Tables (DLT).

You will liaise with the owners of source systems to define and align Data Contracts.

You will implement and oversee Data Governance and security standards within the Unity Catalog.

You will perform technical analysis and root cause analysis to improve data quality and pipeline reliability.

You will build and maintain strong working relationships with the development team