Principal Engineer, Amazon Studios
Amazon Studios
Culver City, CAThis was removed by the employer on 5/26/2020 1:33:00 PM PST
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As an Studios Technology Principal Engineer you'll be a technical leader. You'll help establish technical standards and drive Studios Technology's overall technical architecture and engineering practices. You'll work on Amazon Studios' hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. You'll think globally when building systems, ensuring Studios Technology builds high performing, scalable systems that fit well together. Amazon Principal Engineers are pragmatic visionaries who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Your expertise is deep and broad; you're hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.
As a Studios Technology Principal Engineer you'll 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 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.
You are a visionary leader, builder and operator. You have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts and/or IT projects and initiatives. You are able to balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology. You'll strive for simplicity and will demonstrate significant creativity.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field.
• 10 years of relevant, broad engineering experience required.
• Experience leading the delivery of large-scale systems focused on managing the infrastructure layer of the technology stack.
• Technical expertise in at least one major technical area: large scale Unix systems engineering, building complex distributed systems, building monitoring or management tools for large-scale environments.
• Experience in solving business and architecture problems.
• Project management experience.
• Experience leading development life cycle process and best practices.
• Experience with Agile Management (SCRUM, RUP, XP), OO Modeling, working on internet, UNIX, Middleware, and database related projects.
• Experience mentoring/training the engineering community on complex technical issues.