Senior Platform Engineer, commercetools
Database Platform
+ Stock options
3 days a week in office (Ritterstraße 7, Berlin)
eCommerce provider
Open for applications
eCommerce provider
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock options
3 days a week in office (Ritterstraße 7, Berlin)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
The leading composable commerce platform that arms you with the essential tools to evolve, build, and scale at your own pace
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering or a similar role
- Experience building and owning services in languages such as Go or Rust
- Knowledge of database internals such as indexing, sharding, replication and storage management. We primarily use MongoDB with some PostgreSQL
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS or Azure)
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Crossplane, or Pulumi
- Familiarity with SRE principles and practices such as monitoring and alerting, SLOs and incident response
- Experience providing high-quality code reviews and mentoring teammates
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a distributed team
- Fluent written and spoken English
Desirable
- Experience working in a platform engineering environment
What the job involves
- Our Database Platform team creates a resilient, performant and secure database platform for our product teams to leverage. At commercetools’ scale, automation is a requirement, and some of the tooling we've developed includes dynamic indexing and autoscaling
- We're looking for a senior software engineer with SRE skills and knowledge of database internals to help us build and operate the platform. You'll have the opportunity to guide our team as we move towards our Database Platform vision
- Build and operate high-quality software systems to help the database platform scale as the company and our customers grow
- Use monitoring tools and systematic debugging to prevent and resolve issues
- Participate and contribute to the team’s roadmap, technical decisions and planning, by producing quality proposals, giving meaningful feedback and driving alignment
- Collaborate and share knowledge asynchronously using written documentation such as RFCs, runbooks and architecture diagrams
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvement and raise them within the team
- Foster a culture in which people are encouraged to work collaboratively and grow from mistakes
- Participate in the global on-call rotation and prepare other engineers for on-call
Our take
eCommerce software simplifies complex processes and helps companies effectively manage their inventory, calculate taxes and perform other business-related functions. While companies like Shopify have addressed the needs of smaller retailers, Commercetools has built its business around catering to enterprises' specific needs and large investment budgets.
The company provides APIs that can be used to build customized payment, check-out, social commerce, marketplace and other services. It powers billions of sales annually for its customers, which have included Audi, AT&T, Danone, Tiffany & Co., and John Lewis.
In 2021, Commercetools acquired the frontend platform, Frontastic, to build a broader portfolio of commerce technology services. In 2023, Commercetools scaled the availability of its tools in mainland China, marking the first cloud-native commerce solution to ever expand into the country, a significant expansion seeing as the nation is the largest single eCommerce market worldwide.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
40% female employees
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2021
$140m
SERIES C
Oct 2019
$135.3m
LATE VC
Total funding: $293.1m
Company benefits
- 100% covered premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance for you, dependents, and spouse/partner
- Generous time off package including PTO, parental leave, company holidays, sick time, and volunteer time off
- Monthly health membership and phone stipend
- Compensation benefits including 401K company match and an annual professional development stipend
- Flexible, family-friendly working hours - we are a remote first company
Company values
- Cultivate Belonging: We welcome diverse backgrounds and experiences, driving positive change through inclusion and teamwork
- Champion Customers: We go the extra mile for our customers to help them unlock their full potential
- Adapt Boldly: We’re curious and innovative, we take risks and grow from our failures
- Drive Results: We think big, work smart, and execute fast to transform the future of commerce
Company HQ
Schwabing-West, Munich, Germany
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Leadership
Dirk Hoerig
(CEO)Previously co-founded and served as Managing Director for Xoanon. Sits in the Board of Directors as Executive Chairman for commercetools, Inc.
Denis Werner
(COO)Previously acted as a Working Student for Management Consulting Group and as a Diploma Student for Oracle. Was one of the founders of Xoanon.
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