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Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Germany, Berlin · Job Posted April 12, 2026
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As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer in ZMS, you will be the tech lead working with other ML engineers to build our real-time recommendation engine for our Ad Tech platform which includes organic and multimedia ads. This position is a unique opportunity to have visible impact, and connect with exceptional talents from many different backgrounds: you will be part of a cross-functional team of Applied Scientists, Data Engineers and Software Engineers.

Job Responsibility

  • Drive the operationalization of solutions deployed in production, and help the team grow and cultivate best practices in software development and MLOps
  • Architect and lead the development of machine learning solutions that can handle low latency, high availability and high volume scenarios
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance across multiple projects simultaneously while managing competing priorities effectively within agreed-upon timelines
  • Apply techniques and create processes to optimise deployed models for better performance, latency, and memory usage
  • Work closely with applied science and engineering teams, product managers and other business stakeholders to bring our state-of-the-art solutions to customers and to discover and identify new opportunities

Requirements

  • Excellent software development engineering skills to design computationally effective solutions for machine learning operationalization and maintenance (MLOps/MLaaS) in large-scale production environments (data engineering, data version control, model serving, continuous monitoring & alerting)
  • Strong verbal and written communication and presentation abilities when discussing complex ideas with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Hands-on professional experience in programming, using Python, Java Flink, pySpark, PyTorch, and TensorFlow
  • Strong programming skills with a high performance language (Java, Scala, Go, etc) and experience working with Python in production
  • Experience building, deploying and operating data-driven systems in a cloud environment, including experience with feature stores & feature engineering pipelines, data ingestion & transformation, machine learning workflow orchestration
  • Thrive to coach and mentor senior engineers, and work closely with applied scientists, senior machine learning engineers and data scientists

What we offer

  • 27 days of holiday a year to start for full-time employees (+1 day for every calendar year up to 30 days)
  • 2 paid volunteering days a year
  • Hybrid working model with up to 60% remote per week
  • Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
  • Employee shares program
  • 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, discounts from external partners
  • Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
  • Family services, including counseling and support
  • Health and wellbeing options (including Wellhub, formerly Gympass)
  • Mental health support and coaching available
  • Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review

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