Principal Engineer - Quality Assurance

📋 Description

• Build and maintain a living risk model for the streaming chain. Raise effort where failure hurts
• Define what 'releasable' means for backend, middleware, and clients - including how continuous
• Define and establish staged rollout, canary, and rollback strategies together with eng and SRE/ops.
• Set the pyramid and ownership boundaries (unit through E2E, performance, playback/stream
• Join major quality incidents with a quality lens; strengthen production feedback for streaming
• Set practical standards for frameworks, CI integration, test data, environments, and reporting so

🎯 Requirements

• Track record as a senior IC in quality engineering (or equivalent) for complex, multi-service
• Experience designing whole-stack quality strategy: backend services, configuration/policy layers
• Ability to define and land test architecture (pyramid, ownership, cross-stack
• Strong influence without authority: you raise the bar inside eng teams, socialize standards, and
• Strong software engineering skills at senior level or above; you write production-quality code, not
• Designing and coding for testability, and building automation as a first-class engineering product

🎁 Benefits

• Strong market competitive salary
• 30 days vacation plus public holidays
• Trust-based flexible working hours and the option for remote work worldwide for up to 8 weeks per
• Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
• Your own development budget, German classes and Zattoo all-company hack days
• Fun, engaged, and diverse team made up of 47 nationalities