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We are looking for a Principal Engineer - the most senior hands-on engineer in the company: you design, you build, and you ship alongside our teams. You set the engineering standard for an entire domain, and you make it stick - in the code, in the pipelines, and in how our teams adopt AI-native ways of working. Expect a roughly 50/50 split: half your time accelerating projects inside teams, half driving the cross-cutting standards everyone works to. \nWhat you will do:\nSet the standard: own the cross-cutting standards backlog for your domains - unified observability and monitoring, alerting, release and deployment processes, CI/CD templates, and shared packages - and make them binding: non-compliant code does not merge. \nStay in the code: design, prototype and build on the hardest cross-team problems - the migrations, integrations and foundations no single team can own.\nJump-start delivery: parachute into projects that need momentum - run the technical discovery, shape the solution, get the first implementation moving with the team. You accelerate teams. \nEmbed, don't tower: work inside teams to raise the bar in place, pairing with Tech Leads and Engineering Managers.\nEnforce through systems: skills-per-repo, PR guardrails and automated checks carry the standard, so it scales without you hand-reviewing every merge.\nMake us AI-native: drive agentic development as the default way of working, on a drumbeat you set with the Engineering Managers.\nCover the gaps: step into teams without a Tech Lead to keep delivery and quality on track while we hire.\n Pair at the top: partner with Engineering Leadership on domain architecture. You set the standard; the Tech Leads spread it. \nWho you are:\n10+ years of engineering, with recent staff- or principal-level scope at a strong product or tech company.\nYou have carried technical responsibility across at least three domains - not one deep silo. This is a hard requirement.\nYou have joined an existing ecosystem and changed it - change management in a landscape you didn't build is core to this job; greenfield-only track records don't clear the bar.\nHands-on across the stack and still shipping code weekly; deep in at least one of event-driven backends, large-scale commerce ecosystems, or integration and data platforms.\nYou have made standards stick across teams that didn't report to you - through tooling, guardrails and example, not decks. \nAlready ahead of us on AI-assisted and agentic development at enterprise scale - multi-team, inside an existing ecosystem. We expect to learn this from you, not to teach it to you - and you can show a team or codebase you made measurably faster.\nYou explain hard things simply - to engineers, to product, to the board. If you truly know it, you can say it plainly.\nZero direct reports, by design - and that suits you. Your authority is technical, and on domain standards it is final. \nWhat you will get:\nCompetitive compensation - we benchmark this role against the top of the Dutch tech market, not against retail. A freelance-first start is possible if that is how you work.\nA real top-of-ladder IC seat: final say on domain standards, a direct line to the Head of Engineering and the Director, and no management detour required to keep growing.\nScale that shows: ~16 product teams, a global Shopify migration, own-built Custom Made and Radical Personal platforms, and an ERP transition - with the mandate to make it all AI-native. \nAutonomy without layers of sign-off\nHybrid working: three days in the Amsterdam HQ, two remote - flexible in both directions once you're up to speed.\nA 40% discount on Suitsupply product, and a working wardrobe you'll actually want to wear.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3752,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Netherlands","iso":"NL","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Apparel & Fashion Brands","Luxury Retail"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T11:14:45Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":71,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.786,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":41,"expected_fill_days":66,"reasons":["conf:0","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-24T06:02:35Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/suitsupply-principal-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/suitsupply-principal-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-24T19:34:12Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":28660,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-25T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2318059},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2318059"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsuitsupply-principal-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsuitsupply-principal-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsuitsupply-principal-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/suitsupply-principal-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsuitsupply-principal-engineer"}]}