Senior Principal Engineer — The Rocks, Sydney

We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. We enable companies to unlock value by making each transaction relevant at the moment that matters most, when customers are buying. Together, Rokt's AI-based relevance Platform and scaled ecommerce Network powers billions of transactions. In December 2022, Rokt's valuation increased to $2.4 billion USD, allowing us to expand rapidly across 15 countries. The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to better understand consumers. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day and considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology. At Rokt, we practice transparency in career paths and compensation. At Rokt, we believe in transparency, which is why we have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability. Rokt'stars constantly strive to raise the bar, pushing the envelope of what is possible. We are looking for a Senior Principal Engineer Compensation: $270,000-$300,000 including superannuation, employee equity plan grant & world class benefits. As a Senior Principal Engineer at Rokt, you will serve as a distinguished individual contributor and technology expert. In this role, you will take ownership of key components within the Rokt product, focusing on delivering features while championing technical excellence across the engineering organisation. In this role you will be encouraged to influence our technology direction, establish innovative programs, and own architectural solutions. This role requires a commitment to engineering excellence, including setting best practices, leading complex projects, and designing high-performance systems. Leadership qualities are paramount, with a focus on promoting innovation and mentoring to enhance both technical and leadership skills. If you are a strong individual contributor with a passion for shaping the future of technology, this role offers a unique opportunity to drive innovation and excellence at Rokt. This role will give you a massive scope to have a serious impact on the technical direction and continuously raise the bar of the overall engineering function at Rokt. Playing at a market-leading scale, you'll have an opportunity to deep-dive into some of the most complex and innovative systems around. In practice, you'll have the chance to improve and build on a system that already has over 35,000 containers in production, deals with Petabytes of data, 2.5bn individual eCommerce transactions per year, the largest Kubeflow pipelines in the world, and systems that routinely deal with 10,000 RPS, and continues to scale All of that data that we process goes through Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms and models, all built and trained in-house, to ensure peak relevancy for consumers, and are constantly being improved upon, which results in one of the most advanced and mature Machine Learning practices in the world. We currently have over 140 engineers in Sydney, with a view to expanding over the next few years across all sites. We've established a brand-new engineering hub in Seattle, with access to some of the best engineers from around the world About the Role: Interface with engineering leaders across the business to drive initiatives and scale Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity as an individual contributor Proactively identify and propose improvements to the current system architecture that emphasises performance, reliability and scalability Effectively collaborate with the global Product & Engineering leadership team on highly complex system topics, planning and resourcing topics, and architectural decisions Teach, grow and mentor the team, and provide advice to other domain experts, and individual contributors, across several teams