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Description

Stay local, shop global! Amazon Global Store allows customers to easily discover a wide selection of international products available from Amazon’s websites around the world, offering simplified customs, faster delivery, local language and payment support, and a world-class customer service. Global Store has presence in multiple countries and will continue to stay at the forefront of Amazon’s global expansion strategy. Global Store builds and maintains software solutions that support customers to shop Amazon’s international selection on their local site, at parity with the local CX focusing on Delivery Experience and Speed, Selection, and Pricing.

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, straight-forward solutions.

• Fully and completely understand system inter-dependencies 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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bangalore, KA, IND

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree

• 10+ years of software engineering with a proven track record of leading large-scale projects experience

• Experience in complex software development and knowledge of emerging platforms, Java, operating system principles, and programming best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems and experience with databases