Principal Software Engineer, Amazon
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Bachelor's degree
- Deep hands-on technical expertise in: large scale Unix systems engineering, building and operating complex distributed systems
- Experience in an object oriented, high-performance language such as Java, C++, or C#
- Strong understanding of performance, memory and I/O
- Understanding of web services technologies such as HTTP, WSDL, and REST
- Strong understanding of system and application performance characteristics
- Ability to work in a fast paced and agile development environment
- Passion for developing products which provide a great customer experience
- Motivation to drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects
Desirable
- Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technically challenging area, for example building complex distributed systems or building large scale networking software systems
- Big Data – for example, with experience with Hadoop, Spark, HBase and NoSql databases
- Master's degree in computer science or related technical field
- 15-20+ years of relevant, broad engineering experience
- Experience leading the delivery of APIs and SDKs
- Experience leading the delivery of Applications, ideally large-scale distributed systems
- Experience in Software As A Service
- Experience in building infrastructure for machine learning applications would be nice to have
What the job involves
- As a senior technical individual contributor, the candidate will join the ranks of Amazon Principal, Senior Principal or Distinguished Engineers
- As such, you’ll be a technical leader. You will help establish technical standards and drive Amazon’s overall technical architecture and engineering practices
- Work on Amazon’s hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs
- Serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects
- Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems
- Lead the design, get hands dirty and write code, and ultimately deploy successful enterprise-level systems that can be leveraged for a broad set of business use cases
- Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions that demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment
- 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
- 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
- Work effectively with product development and engineering teams across multiple geographies
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Founders
Jeff Bezos
(Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO (not founder))Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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