Staff Engineer, Experimentation platform
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Vinted is hiring a Staff Engineer for Data Infrastructure to own the long term technical vision for experimentation capabilities and the data foundations that support them. You will define a cohesive end to end architecture for reliable experimentation at scale, covering feature flags rollout controls experiment exposure and event pipelines, metrics and reporting, and the integrations the platform depends on, while guiding the broader data infrastructure to be coherent and scalable. Expect to lead cross team initiatives, establish engineering standards for APIs SDKs schemas observability privacy and access management, and translate stakeholder needs into concrete execution plans. When applying, emphasize cross team platform leadership, measurable impact in scaling experiments, collaboration with engineers product and leadership, clear architecture decisions and strong English; note on site Amsterdam and hybrid options, with salary €107 000 to €144 800.
Brief info about Vinted
Our mission is to make second-hand the first choice, and we're looking for people who want to help us get there. Every day, we work together to help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third.
The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:
Vinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life.
Vinted Go enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces.
Vinted Pay is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members.
Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuania's first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and we've grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people.
Information about the position
As a Staff Engineer for Data Infrastructure, you will define and guide the long-term technical direction for Vinted’s experimentation capabilities and the broader data platform foundations that support them. You will enable teams to roll out impactful changes quickly and safely, run experiments reliably at scale, and use trusted data to make better decisions and learn from experiment results.
Your primary focus will be the end-to-end architecture of Vinted’s Impact Platform — including feature flags, rollout controls, targeting, experiment assignment, exposure and event pipelines, metric foundations, SDKs, governance, and developer experience. Alongside this, you will help shape the wider data infrastructure these capabilities depend on, ensuring they evolve as a coherent, reliable, and scalable platform across Vinted.
Reporting to the Director of Engineering for Data Infrastructure, you will work closely with other Staff Engineers, Engineering Managers, and teams across the domain and broader organisation to align technical direction, drive platform evolution, and raise the engineering bar.
Think you’re up to the challenge? Read on.
In this position, you’ll
- Own the long-term technical vision for Vinted’s experimentation capabilities, including feature flags, rollout controls, targeting, and the data foundations behind them.
- Define a cohesive end-to-end architecture for reliable experimentation at scale, spanning feature flags, experiment assignment, exposure and event pipelines, metrics, reporting, and the broader data platform integrations these capabilities depend on.
- Set engineering standards for platform APIs, SDKs, schemas, data contracts, observability, privacy, and access management.
- Lead high-impact cross-team technical initiatives, clarify architectural trade-offs, and raise engineering standards across the domain.
- Partner with internal users and stakeholders to gather feedback, drive adoption, and ensure the platform solves real user needs.
- Represent Data Infrastructure within the Staff / Principal Engineer layer, helping steer key technical priorities, architectural trade-offs, and execution direction.
About you
- Extensive prior experience as an architect, principal, or staff engineer, having delivered cross-team platform or infrastructure initiatives in organisations operating at scale.
- Strong architectural judgment across data platforms, experimentation systems, feature flags, and platform engineering, with the ability to connect technical decisions to a broader domain strategy.
- Hands-on understanding of modern data platform architecture, including orchestration, ingestion, storage and table formats, analytics and BI tooling, governance, privacy, access control, and observability.
- Practical experience shaping hybrid on-prem / cloud architectures, with a solid understanding of cloud economics, platform cost trade-offs, and vendor lock-in mitigation.
- Experience with experimentation platforms, feature flags, metrics frameworks, product instrumentation, or analysis and reporting automation would be a strong advantage.
- Demonstrable ability to create technical vision in ambiguous environments and turn it into clear architecture, standards, and execution direction across multiple teams.
- Ability to delegate refinement and implementation of technical initiatives to engineers in your organisation while remaining close enough to the architecture to provide meaningful guidance.
- Sharp communication skills and an ability to discuss complex technical topics with engineers, product and data stakeholders, and leadership, building alignment and consensus across domains.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
Work perks
- The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
- 25 days of paid annual leave
- Newest MacBook models
- Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
- Frequent team-building events
- Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
- A daily lunch allowance
- ClassPass (Gym Membership subsidy)
- Pension plan with total contribution of 12%, 8% by the Company and 4% by employee
- A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
- An NS mobility card
- The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation
- A dog-friendly office
Working at Vinted
Individual Learning Budget
We invest in your professional growth! As part of our commitment to continuous learning, we offer an annual learning budget to support your personal and career development through courses, certifications, workshops and more.
Hybrid Work
We’ve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in the office are recommended but not enforced. It’s up to you and your team to decide on the exact days you’ll spend working together in person.
Equal Opportunity
The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and life experiences. At Vinted, all applicants are treated fairly without regard to their race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.