Head of Engineering, commercetools

Infrastructure

Salary not provided

+ Stock option package

MongoDB
AWS
Kubernetes
GCP
Elasticsearch
Redis
Postgres
Terraform
Prometheus
Grafana
Senior and Expert level
Berlin

3 days a week in office (Ritterstraße, Berlin)

commercetools

eCommerce provider

Open for applications

commercetools

eCommerce provider

501-1000 employees

RetailB2BEnterpriseInternal toolsSaaSAPIAutomationeCommerce

Open for applications

Salary not provided

+ Stock option package

MongoDB
AWS
Kubernetes
GCP
Elasticsearch
Redis
Postgres
Terraform
Prometheus
Grafana
Senior and Expert level
Berlin

3 days a week in office (Ritterstraße, Berlin)

501-1000 employees

RetailB2BEnterpriseInternal toolsSaaSAPIAutomationeCommerce

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

  • A technical background and a proven track record as an individual contributor in infrastructure or site reliability engineering (5+ years)
  • Management experience, including as a Manager of Managers (3+ years)
  • Experience building a self-service infrastructure platform for multiple products, experience integrating acquired products onto a shared infrastructure is a plus
  • Experience managing a multi-million dollar cloud budget and managing vendor relationships
  • Knowledge of Security and Compliance, experience with audits in ISO, SOC2 and HIPAA is a plus
  • Profound knowledge in direction setting
  • Expertise and experience in Project Management
  • Passion for teamwork coming with excellent collaboration and communication skills
  • Fluent English to work in an international environment

Desirable

  • General experience within the e-commerce space
  • Experience with FinOps

What the job involves

  • You will enhance our leadership team in our goal to run a performant engineering department while following the principle of “tech is a people business”
  • Our leadership culture will guide you to empower and mentor engineering managers to run their teams in a lean and efficient manner in order to deliver the best products for our customers
  • You will drive and continuously grow our Infrastructure and Tooling group in a tandem with the Head of Product
  • The Infrastructure & Tooling group consists of six teams who manage our Kubernetes infrastructure, deployment pipelines, the observability stack, databases infrastructure as well as product security
  • We deploy to both Google Cloud and AWS in multiple regions around the world
  • Our products are offered with SLAs of up to 99.99% uptime
  • Ensure company and department strategies and vision are understood and cascaded into the teams with your Head of Product Management peer
  • Deliver a self-service infrastructure platform with your group to enable other product groups to deliver our product vision
  • Support the implementation and improvement of company programs, procedures, methods, processes and practices with other Heads of Engineering, e.g. onboarding, performance management, people development, retention, best practices
  • Project Management for group wide tech initiatives in close collaboration with Principal Engineers and Engineering Managers
  • Drives people and team strategy planning (FTE, skills needed, depth of experience, internal and external staffing mix, team moves) consistent with the budget and needs of the group
  • People management for Engineering Managers, support their growth, coach them and conduct performance and development dialogs
  • People management for the Staff Chapter Lead of the SRE chapter
  • Ensure that Engineering Managers focus on engineering excellence, quality in all matters and speed to market
  • Monitors operational statistics, reports trends, variances and issues
  • Our Tech Stack: Kubernetes, Istio, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenCost, CrowdStrike LogScale, Terraform, Spacelift, Crossplane, CircleCI, ArgoCD, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch, Wazuh, Trivy, GitHub (incl. Advanced Security)

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Insights

Top investors

40% female employees

16% employee growth in 12 months

Company

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

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Sep 2021

$140m

SERIES C

Oct 2019

$148m

LATE VC

Total funding: $305.8m

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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