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Amazon Principal Software Engineer, Selection Monitoring in Bangalore, India
Description
Selection Discovery is currently responsible for discovery of various eCommerce entities at global scale (websites, products, brands, etc.), build pipelines to fetch content from these sources and transform those to key-value pairs (facts) and persist those in scalable data stores. The scale of data discovery (1B urls, 4T facts per month), and gathering is constrained largely by Humans-in-the-loop (HITL), however with advent of LLMs, investments are being made to support 20x scale with the global expansion in Direct-to-customer (DTC) brand websites. We need a Principal Engineer to be able to provide E2E architecture spanning across 4+ teams
Key job responsibilities
• Drive clarity and consensus for both business problems and technical strategy; and independently lead our most demanding, cross-functional projects spanning across Selection Monitoring, Amazon Catalog, and Seller systems orgs
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to Senior Managers and Directors, influencing planning strategy and trade-offs.
• Deliver solution architectures spanning across multiple software systems in selection discovery, brand identification and cataloging, automated matching, and Amazon catalog systems.
• Have direct influence in some areas on full software development lifecycle including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance strategy; while influencing other areas at architectural level.
• Provide end-to-end architectural/mentoring cover to 30-40 engineers across 5+ teams to ensure a cohesive delivery towards larger business objective and tech strategy.
• Balance constraints to ensure progress towards vision, while understanding that speed of delivery matters.
• Drive instrumentation to measure effectiveness of solutions, data, and processes involved; and build both technical and non-technical solutions to address gaps.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bangalore, KA, IND
Basic Qualifications
10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in full-stack mobile development- android /iOS or modern web browsers and services mainly in Java in a Linux or Unix environment
Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture)