Senior System Engineer (m/f/d) - Engineering Platform

<h2>Your Tasks</h2> <ul> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Technical Expertise:</b> Serve as a technical expert on our platform, providing guidance, support, and best practices to developers and product organization</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Community Building:</b> Foster and grow a vibrant and engaged global developer community by organizing meetups, hackathons, and other community-driven activities</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Advocacy and Outreach:</b> Act as an advocate for our platform, engaging with developers, senior management and communities through events, conferences, webinars</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Feedback Loop:</b> Gather feedback from the developer community and relay insights to internal teams to drive continuous improvement of our platform</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Software Engineering Practices</b>: Lead initiatives to define, promote, and implement best practices in software engineering within the developer community. This includes:</span></span></span></span> <ul> <li><span><span><span><span>Process Optimization: Advocate for and help implement efficient development processes, including continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), agile methodologies, and DevOps practices</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span>Code Quality: Promote practices that enhance code quality, such as automated testing, code reviews, and documentation standards</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span>Performance and Scalability: Provide guidance on building high-performance, scalable, and maintainable software solutions</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span>Security: Educate developers on secure coding practices and the importance of incorporating security into the development lifecycle</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span>Innovation: Encourage the adoption of emerging technologies and methodologies that can improve the software development process</span></span></span></span></li> </ul> </li> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Collaboration:</b> Work closely with product and engineering teams to align evangelism efforts with product development and engineering strategies</span></span></span></span></li> </ul> <h2>Your Profile</h2> <ul> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Experience:</b> Minimum of 10 years of experience in software development, technology evangelism or a related role within software engineering</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Technical Skills:</b> Strong proficiency in software development practices, familiarity with various programming languages, frameworks, and tools. In detail:</span></span></span></span> <ul> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Software Development:</b> Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks like Typescript, Java, Kotlin GoLang, Terraform</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Process Optimization</b>: Expertise in integration/deployment (CI/CD) tools and practices (GitHub Actions, Flux, Argo CD)</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Code Quality</b>: Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and static code analysis – e.g. JUnit, Selenium, SonarQube or ESLint</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Performance and Scalability</b>: Knowledge of microservice / scalable system design and cloud services within Google Cloud Platform, Azure or AWS</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Security</b>: Understanding of secure coding practices and common security vulnerabilities (e.g. OWASP Top Ten) and ability to incorporate security best practices into development lifecycle</span></span></span></span></li> </ul> </li> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Communication:</b> Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Community Engagement:</b> Experience in building and nurturing developer communities</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span><span><span><span><b>Passion:</b> A genuine passion for technology, innovation and empowering developers</span></span></span></span></li> </ul> <h2>About Us</h2> <p>MediaMarktSaturn is Europe’s leading consumer electronics retailer. It sees itself as a partner, daily companion and navigator for its customers in the digital world. Its over 1,000 MediaMarkt and Saturn stores are closely integrated with their online shops. MediaMarktSaturn has a total headcount of more than 60,000.</p> <p>MediaMarktSaturn Technology is working on making Europe's number one consumer electronics retailer the technology leader in its sector. To this end, several hundred developers, UX designers and system architects using state-of-the-art techno