Staff and principal engineer jobs in Europe
514 open roles for staff and principal engineers in Europe as of Nov 14, 2026. Elastic, Preply, Databricks, Mozilla and IonQ have the most. 136 are remote.
- Staff Site Reliability EngineerSprout Social · 🇵🇱Remote Poland—RemoteLeadGoPythonJava
- Senior Staff Product EngineerHyperexponential · 🇵🇱Warsaw (hybrid) · +1 more location—LeadRustPythonC++
- Staff Product EngineerHyperexponential · 🇵🇱Warsaw (hybrid) · +1 more location—LeadRustPythonC++
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Developer ExperienceCohere · 🇬🇧London$185K - $300KLeadPythonTypeScriptDocker
- Sr. Staff Engineer, Enterprise BrowserNetskope · 🇪🇸Spain€80K - €136KLeadGoPythonJava
- Staff Research Scientist - Foundation & World ModelsDatadog · 🇫🇷Paris, France—LeadMachine LearningLLM
- Staff Research Scientist - Post-Training for Observability Native ModelsDatadog · 🇫🇷Paris, France—LeadMachine Learning
- Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Crawler)Perplexity · 🇬🇧London—RustPythonC++
- Member of Technical Staff (Web Access Engineer, Crawler)Perplexity · 🇬🇧London—RustGoPython
- Staff Customer Engineer - Iberia and FIMEAircall.io, Inc. · 🇫🇷Paris Office · +1 more location—LeadPythonJavaScriptLLM
- Staff Engineer - FintechMews · 🇨🇿🇮🇪🇳🇱Czechia; Ireland; Netherlands; Spain; United Kingdom€80K - €114KLeadAgile
- Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, EMEAGitLab · 🇮🇪🇦🇹🇫🇷Remote Ireland; Remote, Austria; Remote, France; Remote…—RemoteLeadGoTypeScriptRuby
- Staff Backend Engineer, Performance EnablementGitLab · 🇵🇱Remote, Poland—RemoteLeadGCPKubernetes
- Full-Stack Staff Software Engineer - Tech LeadConga · 🇧🇬Bulgaria—LeadTypeScriptReactJava
- Principal Software Engineer - XTM OneFiligran · 🇫🇷France—RemoteLeadPythonTypeScriptLLM
- Staff Software Engineer - Query Planner & ReflectionsDremio · 🇵🇹Portugal - Remote—RemoteLeadJavaC++SQL
- Staff EngineerCapital on Tap · 🇬🇧London—Lead.NET
- Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - ElasticsearchElastic · 🇪🇸Spain · +8 more locations€80K - €127KLeadJavaElasticsearch
- Staff AI Security ArchitectGainsight · 🇵🇱POL - Wrocław—LeadGCPAzureLLM
- Principal Database EngineerKraken · 🇬🇧United Kingdom$161K - $359KRemoteLeadRustGoPython
- Staff Product Security EngineerChainguard · 🇬🇧United Kingdom - Remote—RemoteLeadGoPythonGCP
- Staff Salesforce Engineer (f/m/x)CarOnSale · 🇩🇪Berlin, Germany—LeadLLMSalesforceCI/CD
- Staff Platform Engineer, Agentic Engineeringn8n · 🇩🇪Berlin Office€128K - €202KRemoteLeadTypeScriptJavaScriptNode.js
- Senior Staff Site Reliability EngineerPing Identity · 🇬🇧UK - Remote—RemoteLeadGoDockerGCP
- Senior/Staff - Go Backend Engineer - remote friendlyQonto · 🇮🇹Milan, Italy · +2 more locations—RemoteLeadGoRubyPostgreSQL
- Staff Software Engineer - Payment ProcessingCheckout.com · 🇬🇧London—LeadJava.NETAzure
- Staff Software Engineer, IQ GrowToast · 🇮🇪Dublin, Ireland—LeadReactJavaKotlin
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer - PricingTem · 🇬🇧United Kingdom£115KRemoteLeadPythonMachine LearningCI/CD
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - ML PlatformTem · 🇬🇧United Kingdom£115K - £127KRemoteLeadMachine LearningAI
- Staff Platform EngineerHyperexponential · 🇬🇧London (hybrid) · +1 more location—Lead
- Staff Site Reliability Engineer, InfraSecMongoDB · 🇮🇪Dublin—LeadRustPythonC++
- Staff Customer Engineer, German speakingAircall.io, Inc. · 🇩🇪Berlin Office · +1 more location—LeadPythonJavaScriptLLM
- Staff Engineer, Mobile Applications (Android)Netgear · 🇮🇪Cork, Ireland€81K - €94KLeadPythonJavaScriptReact
- (Senior/Staff) Platform EngineerDuna · Remote (Europe)—RemoteLeadTypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQL
- Staff Software Engineer, Platform (Java)Sprout Social · 🇵🇱Remote Poland—RemoteLeadPythonJavaC++
- Staff Engineer - SearchStaffbase · 🇩🇪Berlin, Germany; Chemnitz, Sachsen, Germany; Dresden, Sac…—LeadGoTypeScriptReact
- Staff Chassis Engineer, Steering and Braking ActuationZoox · 🇬🇧Banbury, UK£111K - £153KLeadJiraAgileComputer Vision
- Staff Security Engineer, Abuse ControlStripe · 🇪🇸Barcelona · +4 more locations—LeadGoPythonJava
- Staff Software Engineer - AlwinDatasnipper · 🇳🇱Amsterdam—LeadGoPythonLLM
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Data PlatformEvervault · 🇬🇧London—LeadMachine LearningKafkaDatabricks
- Staff Software Engineer - SecurityFlowengineering · 🇬🇧London£160K - £230KLeadPythonTypeScriptNode.js
- Staff Backend Engineer - Content PlatformSpotify · 🇬🇧London—LeadGoJavaKotlin
- Principal Software Engineer, GPSScale AI · 🇬🇧London, UK—LeadPythonTypeScriptJavaScript
- Staff Solutions EngineerKong · 🇬🇧England, United Kingdom · +2 more locations—LeadPostgreSQLDockerLinux
- Staff Software EngineerFivetran · 🇷🇸Novi Sad, South Bačka, Serbia, EMEA—LeadRustGoPython
- Grupo QuintoAndar | Staff Software Engineer, Backend [Portugal]Grupo QuintoAndar · 🇵🇹Portugal—LeadGoPythonReact
- Embedded Automotive Platforms, Staff Software EngineerWayve · 🇬🇧London, United Kingdom—LeadC++Linux
- Staff Software Engineer, Firefox EnterpriseMozilla · 🇫🇷Remote France · +1 more location€65K - €87KRemoteLeadRustJavaScriptSQL
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - SAP ConnectorsFivetran · 🇳🇱Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, EMEA€132K - €165KLeadJavaSQLGCP
- Principal Data Architect (Middle East)Capco · 🇵🇱Poland - Warsaw—LeaddbtSnowflake
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Questions about Staff and principal engineer jobs in Europe
- How many Staff and principal engineer jobs in Europe are open right now?
- There are 514 open Staff and principal engineer jobs in Europe at 157 companies on Hiring Right Now as of Nov 14, 2026. 37 of them were posted in the last seven days. The list is rebuilt every hour from the employers' own careers pages.
- Which companies have the most Staff and principal engineer jobs in Europe?
- Right now the most openings are at Elastic (52), Preply (22), Mozilla (16), Databricks (16) and Perplexity (12). The ranking changes as companies open and close roles.
- Are there remote Staff and principal engineer jobs in Europe?
- 136 of the 514 open Staff and principal engineer jobs in Europe (26%) are listed as remote. Remote roles are often limited to certain countries or time zones, so check the location line of each job.
- How do I apply for Staff and principal engineer jobs in Europe?
- Open a job and press “Apply on company site”. You go straight to the employer's own careers page and apply there. Hiring Right Now needs no account and charges nothing for applying.

























