You will be responsible for managing your work queue, making informed design decisions backed by data and customer insights, and navigating difficult design challenges. As an advocate for our customers, you'll have a deep understanding of our customer base, the competition, and the industry. We are seeking a Principal Engineer who can think big, conceptualize and design products with proven customer value, create technical solutions that address customer pain points, invent new interaction patterns, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. You will design and deliver experiments that drive new learnings and develop products for a global customer base.
Key job responsibilities
Ownership for overall system architecture, technology, scalability, reliability, and performance for key AIP services in Automotive.
Demonstrate technology thought leadership directly with AWS customers and at Industry Events
Facilitate technical collaboration across AIP services and work with other PE's across AIP and Amazon.
Mentor and develop engineers, help define and grow the technical culture, and assist in attracting and retaining top engineering talent
Demonstrate both Amazon LP's and Amazon Principal Engineering Tenets.
About the team
This team is part of an early stage business with a vision to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers better convenience and more selection. We’re collaborating with other experienced teams at Amazon to define the future of how customers research and shop for cars online.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
10+ years of professional software development experience
7+ years of designing and building large-scale distributed systems
Experience leading technical strategy and architecture for organizations of 30+ engineers
Proven track record of delivering high-performance data systems that put data directly into the hands of sophisticated customers through programmatic interfaces
Experience presenting technical strategies to senior executive leadership
Experience with advertising or retail technology platforms or large-scale reporting systems
Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure (S3, EMR, SQS, Kinesis, Firehose)
Publications, talks, or recognized thought leadership in distributed systems
Experience mentoring engineers to Staff/Principal level
Track record of building consensus across organizations with competing technical priorities
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