PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER, BARCELONA

Principal Software Engineer
Do you want to reach the next level in your career? Do you want new challenges and solve hard problems while using top-notch technologies?

Join us and youll help millions of customers discover the hottest and best-of-breed products from a multi-billion catalog!

The Discovery Tech team helps customers discover and engage with new, popular, and relevant products across Amazon worldwide. We do this by combining technology, science, and innovation to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside cutting-edge tools for marketers. You will be responsible for creating and building critical services that automatically generate, target, and optimize Amazons cross-category marketing and merchandising. Through the enablement of intelligent marketing campaigns that leverage machine-learning models, you will help deliver the best possible shopping experience for Amazons customers all over the globe.

We need bright and very talented people to help us fulfill our mission of making Amazon the most loved destination for each customer in the world!

We believe in regular feature development and frequent experimentation, allowing us to continuously improve the customer experience. You will have the opportunity to explore the many channels Amazon provides for customer outreach and engagement, both onsite and offsite. As a new team, we carry little tech debt. We prioritize writing high-quality and maintainable code and build systems that leverage existing tools to provide extensive test coverage across our services. The team provides a great opportunity to make an outsized impact in a burgeoning space and on fresh or even yet-to-be-built services. There are few opportunities anywhere to start on a new team and make an immediate impact at this scale. Come with us and lets find the best future together.

Key job responsibilities

As a Principal Engineer, you will be expected to serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.

- Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems.

- Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.

- Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations.

- Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.

- Leverage knowledge of internal and industry prior art in design decisions.

- Effectively research and benchmark Amazon technology against other competing systems in the industry.

- Contribute intellectual property through patents.

- Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.

- Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.

- Navigate with other teams in Amazon and influence their design and roadmap decisions for the benefit of our region.

- Collaborate with the business teams to identify opportunities and innovate on behalf of our customers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.

- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture).

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.

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