Take Earth's most customer-centric company. Mix in hundreds of millions of shoppers spending tens of billions of dollars annually, an exciting opportunity to build next-generation shopping experiences, Amazon’s tremendous computational resources, and our extensive e-Commerce experience. What do you get? The most exciting Personalization position in the industry.
Are you passionate about working on disruptive ideas? Are you obsessed with finding and building the most innovative and customer-friendly user experiences? Have you built and launched new experiences that impact shoppers all around the world? This is a unique opportunity that combines the ability to build exciting, new user experiences for Amazon's customers, with the opportunity to work with Big Data, Machine Learning, and other advanced techniques to provide the best personalized experience for hundreds of millions of Amazon's customers.
Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Software Development Engineer in Personalization, you will be responsible for designing and developing large-scale data mining solutions, distributed machine learning systems, and modern client experiences across webpages, mobile applications, and other shopping mediums. You will work cross-functionally, typically collaborating with several teams of software engineers, applied scientists, economists, product managers, user interface designers, and others in order to influence the business and technical strategy for a complex, high-performance organization. You will also drive impactful, long-term choices on system architecture, spearhead a high-quality engineering culture, and help coach & develop junior- as well as senior engineers.
A successful candidate will have an established background in engineering large scale software systems, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment and an ability to influence individuals, teams, and complex organizations.
About the team
Amazon’s Personalization organization is a group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in AI, big data, and distributed systems to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We work full stack, from foundational backend systems to future-forward user interfaces. Our team’s culture is centered on rigorous experimentation and data-driven decision-making. We care deeply about our customers, as well as the well-being and growth of our team members. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow. This is a track record we are proud of and will continue to uphold. We are looking for creative and innovative leaders with a similar penchant for deeply-technical problem solving and the ability to lead, mentor, and deliver while upholding Amazon’s leadership principles.
