Smartly - Principal Engineer, Platform
Requirements
• 3+ years operating at Staff, Principal, Lead Engineer, or equivalent level, driving technical strategy across multiple teams. • Proven track record leading multi-quarter technical initiatives spanning 3+ engineering teams and delivering measurable improvements in scalability, reliability, developer productivity, or operational efficiency. • 5+ years operating production systems where relational database architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance were critical concerns. (e.g. 99.9%+ availability targets) • Strong understanding of distributed systems and experience making architectural decisions involving consistency, availability, partition tolerance, replication and sharding • Demonstrated success influencing technical direction without direct managerial authority. • A high bar for quality of code, testing, and quality of user experience • Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to a wide range of stakeholders • Ability to listen well and internalize the best ideas from across the organization while also setting a vision that others are excited to get behind • Experience with analytical databases such as ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar technologies • Strong infrastructure and cloud platform knowledge • Experience designing systems that safely expose capabilities, data, and workflows to AI agents or autonomous systems. • Experience leading reliability, observability, or performance engineering initiatives
Responsibilities
• Examples of initiatives you will work on • Define how AI agents can safely and effectively interact with Smartly's platform, data, and internal systems. • Shape the technical vision and architecture of Smartly's automation platform, enabling teams to build and operate automations reliably at scale • Partner with teams building our next-generation data products, helping define the architecture for combining multiple large-scale datasets into a unified and accessible data foundation • Evolve the architecture and operational model of our largest databases, including sharding, replication, and scaling strategies • With the team of other Principal Engineers, you will also have a substantial impact on shaping Smartly's technical direction and engineering culture. We expect you to utilize your strengths to the benefit of the development teams you're working with. • Be a strong engineering voice alongside other leaders by advising and driving Smartly's technical vision and strategy, setting and upholding high standards for technical quality, scalability, and operational excellence • Drive execution through architecture, design, and hands-on technical contributions, taking responsibility for delivering large-scale technical initiatives to customers • Expected to remain actively involved in design reviews, prototyping, incident analysis, and implementation of critical technical components. • Lead complex cross-team projects that advance our platform architecture and long-term technical vision • Identify and address scalability, reliability, observability and performance bottlenecks across critical systems • Contribute to sharing learnings and knowledge across the organization, mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards • Participate in our recruitment process and help maintain consistently high engineering standards across teams
Benefits
• At Smartly, we offer a place where you can advance your career. Here, you'll find: • An Inclusive Global Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies, representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries. We cultivate a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback, where diverse perspectives are valued and encouraged. • An Inclusive Global Culture: • Global Impact: Contribute to a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers' success and business growth. • Global Impact: • Focus on Wellbeing: We prioritize your health with healthcare packages, mental health services, and a commitment to work-life balance through paid holidays and family leave. • Focus on Wellbeing: • Comprehensive Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities. • Flexible Hybrid Workplace: Experience a hybrid work model, balancing office collaboration with remote work, and the option to work abroad for up to 30 days annually. • Flexible Hybrid Workplace: • Curious what it's like to work at Smartly? Visit our Careers page to see how we grow, collaborate, and make impact together. • #LI-HYBRID • Smartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it. • Visit Smartly to learn more.The processing of your information is described in our Candidate Privacy Notice.
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