As more than 90% of this revenue is converted through Discovery-related services, your technical leadership will directly fuel our global business.
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to serve as the technical North Star for our high-load, Tier-1 Search and Recommendation systems. In this role, you will move beyond maintenance to architecting a new engineering culture centered on Agentic Engineering. you will design the autonomous tooling and AI-driven workflows that accelerate our global velocity.
As a key technical leader within Global Discovery, you will provide the architectural backbone for our global Search and Recommendation services powering iconic brands like Glovo, Foodpanda, Talabat, Pedidosya and others. Design and implement resilient, Tier-1 services capable of handling massive global traffic with zero-compromise reliability through autonomous, self-healing architectures.
Zero-to-One Innovation: Lead the technical build of production-grade conversational search interfaces from the ground up, moving from keyword-matching to intent-driven, LLM-powered dialogue.
Strategic Influence: You will translate complex business needs into scalable software. Tier-1 Stewardship: A proven history of owning the architectural integrity of global-scale systems where "down-time" is not an option.
Bias for Action: You favor shipping and "figuring it out" over endless planning, moving at an "uncomfortable pace" to deliver value.
Experience automating every aspect of the SDLC, from environment provisioning to automated migration of legacy services.
Self-Healing Infrastructure (good to have): Experience with chaos engineering and designing "closed-loop" systems that use observability data to make autonomous infrastructure adjustments.
Expertise in building Tier-1 services in Java or Go that handle millions of requests per second with sub-100ms latency.
Hands-on experience with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch and Vector Search for semantic retrieval.
Automated Lifecycle Management: Implement robust, automated validation systems that verify model performance and safety against live traffic before autonomous promotion, ensuring system reliability without human oversight.
Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week
We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service
We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.
Health Checkups, Meditation, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy
Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan
The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts. You can also visit our relocation hub and check out more information about moving to Berlin.
We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just let us know with an email to our Inclusion Officer at inclusion@deliveryhero.