Principal Software Engineer, Amazon Autos

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In short

Amazon Autos is seeking a Principal Software Engineer in Gurugram, India, to design and develop innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences. This role requires expertise in large-scale distributed systems, Java, and AWS, with a focus on innovation and technical leadership within a dynamic, startup-like environment.

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 PEs 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.

Requirements

  • 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.

Desired Qualifications

  • 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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Company

Amazon

Job Posted

3 weeks ago

Employment Type

Full Time

WorkMode

On Site

Experience Level

Senior

Locations

Gurugram, India

Qualification

Bachelor

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