# Principal Engineer at Suitsupply > Netherlands · Principal · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Asuitsupply%3A8196032 (read 2026-11-13). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Suitsupply](https://alderhq.app/companies/suitsupply) - Location text: Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands; HQ Amsterdam - Where it can be done from (inferred): Netherlands (evidence: "Location: Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands; HQ Amsterdam") - Posted: 2026-09-12 (62 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-07 · last verified: 2026-11-12 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://careersatsuitsupply.com/en-us/vacancies/8196032?gh_jid=8196032 ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted - Market band for similar posted roles (Amsterdam, n 51): p25 €62k, median €75k, p75 €103k ## Description (the employer's text) ### At Suitsupply, we combine radical style with radical technology. 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. ### What you will do - Set 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. - Stay in the code: design, prototype and build on the hardest cross-team problems — the migrations, integrations and foundations no single team can own. - Jump-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. - Embed, don't tower: work inside teams to raise the bar in place, pairing with Tech Leads and Engineering Managers. - Enforce through systems: skills-per-repo, PR guardrails and automated checks carry the standard, so it scales without you hand-reviewing every merge. - Make us AI-native: drive agentic development as the default way of working, on a drumbeat you set with the Engineering Managers. - Cover the gaps: step into teams without a Tech Lead to keep delivery and quality on track while we hire. - Pair at the top: partner with Engineering Leadership on domain architecture. You set the standard; the Tech Leads spread it. ### Who you are - 10+ years of engineering, with recent staff- or principal-level scope at a strong product or tech company. - You have carried technical responsibility across at least three domains — not one deep silo. This is a hard requirement. - You 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. - Hands-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. - You have made standards stick across teams that didn't report to you — through tooling, guardrails and example, not decks. - Already 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. - You explain hard things simply — to engineers, to product, to the board. If you truly know it, you can say it plainly. - Zero direct reports, by design — and that suits you. Your authority is technical, and on domain standards it is final. ### What you will get - Competitive 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. - A 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. - Scale 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. - Autonomy without layers of sign-off - Hybrid working: three days in the Amsterdam HQ, two remote — flexible in both directions once you're up to speed. - A 40% discount on Suitsupply product, and a working wardrobe you'll actually want to wear. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Asuitsupply%3A8196032 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.