Principal Engineer, Developer Experience

The Role: How you'll make an impact at Personio

This position is based in New York City, and in some cases remote can be considered for the following states: CA, CT, FL, MA, MI, OR, NJ, TX, SC, VT, WA.

At Personio, we are on an inspiring and ambitious mission to build the People Operating System - the single source of truth for employee information - that enables small & mid-sized businesses to be strategic about their people, the biggest asset and success factor for any organization.

We are building the environment and the culture for you to do the best work of your career. You'll be surrounded by fellow craftspeople and you'll be asked to apply your skills to raise the bar for how Personio – and the industry at large – builds products.

As a Principal Engineer within the Developer Experience group, you will play a crucial role in driving technical excellence and innovation within the organization. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining complex systems. Your expertise will be essential in solving challenging technical problems and contributing to the overall success of the team and company.

Our Developer Experience group has a mission to drive efficiencies in engineering and protect the availability of the Personio application. We are passionate about giving our product development engineers the most efficient, safe, and easy tools, processes and frameworks to get their code into the hands of customers. 

Role Responsibilities: What you'll do

• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers while participating in interviewing/hiring new talent.
• Improving systems: Lead research, engineering, and innovation to improve developer experience. 
• Coding: Write high-quality, maintainable code in accordance with coding standards and best practices. 
• Solution Oriented: Analyze complex technical problems and propose innovative solutions. 
• DevOps: Devise new DevOps practices to address key problems and ensuring we are ready to scale 10x. 
• Metrics Oriented: Create new metrics to represent developer experience, beyond our Lead Time to Production and Deployment Frequency metrics. 
• Collaboration: Collaborate with various engineering teams on related tech projects.

How you’ll go about it: 

• Broad experience in modern cloud based SaaS ecosystem.
• Experience designing and building to scale software to handle 10x load increases and 100x peak traffic spikesInfluencing and strengthening team culture while identifying areas for improvement. 
• Demonstrate technical excellence through hands-on involvement in projects and continuous learning.
• Maintain open and clear communication and foster a collaborative work environment with team members, stakeholders, and management. 
• Continuously drive technical innovation and improvements across multiple teams.
• Hands-on coding experience. 
• “Platform as a product” mindset and strategic thinking about the product roadmap.

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science or a related field. 
• 10+ yrs of experience in software engineering or a relevant technical role; building and designing scalable applications in a distributed system. 
• Strong proficiency in programming languages and frameworks. 
• Deep understanding in DevOps tools and technologies such as AWS (CDK, ECS, Fargate etc.), Sentry, DataDog, Docker, Gitlab CI, K8S, Flagger, Linkerd, as well as deployment automation (CI/CD pipelines, feature flags, blue/green and canary deployments).

Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.

Our Benefits

Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:

• Receive a robust reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
• Enjoy 20 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)
• Invest in your future with a 401(k) retirement account and a Personio match of up to 5%
• Get comprehensive medical, dental, and visi