Principal Engineer, Platform

Smartly
Helsinki
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Communications, PR & CommunityExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Mentoring","Influencing","Collaboration"]

Lead the Platform Group’s technical direction, shaping architecture for large-scale databases and distributed systems, driving initiatives to improve scalability, reliability, and developer productivity. Collaborate with engineers, product leaders, and stakeholders to define vision, execute high-impact architectural programs, and mentor teams while scaling platform services across Smartly.

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Smartly
Smartly
2 months ago

Principal Engineer, Platform

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Job Summary

Lead the Platform Group’s technical direction, shaping architecture for large-scale databases and distributed systems, driving initiatives to improve scalability, reliability, and developer productivity. Collaborate with engineers, product leaders, and stakeholders to define vision, execute high-impact architectural programs, and mentor teams while scaling platform services across Smartly.
Location: Helsinki
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community

Key Responsibilities

  • •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

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalRemote WorkLearning Budget

Key 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
Experience:3+ yearsAdvertising technologySaaSAIPlatform
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipMentoringInfluencingCollaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Distributed systemsRelational databasesScalabilityObservabilityAIData platformsShardingReplication

Company Brief

Smartly
Provides a cloud-based advertising automation platform that helps brands and agencies create, manage, and optimize scalable social and digital ad campaigns across channels with creative and measurement tools.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Helsinki, Finland
Founded: 2013
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