Principal Software Engineer, Device Management Systems
The Amazon Device Management Systems (ADMS) organization in Chennai is specialized in building foundational solutions that cater to critical customer experiences including device-authentication, device-registration, device profiles, and account-linking. These solutions cater to all Amazon first-party devices and other third-party devices, smart-home devices, mobile applications, and services that connect to the Amazon cloud on behalf of customer scenarios that originate through these devices.
The organization is looking for an experienced and talented Principal Engineer with experience and passion in building large-scale cloud-based web service solutions, particularly those that interact with the Amazon device ecosystem. As the organization expands its foundational solutions to include newer use-cases involving third-party devices, enterprise customers, and locally-connected devices, we are seeking a PE who has experience in evolving existing architectures to handle a broader set of use-cases while maintaining simplicity.
As an Amazon.com Principal Engineer, you’ll be a technical leader. You’ll help establish technical standards and drive Amazon’s overall technical architecture and engineering practices. You’ll work on Amazon’s hardest problems, building high-quality, architecturally sound systems aligned with our business needs. You’ll think globally when building systems, ensuring Amazon.com builds high-performing, scalable systems that fit well together. Amazon.com Principal Engineers are pragmatic visionaries who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Your expertise is deep and broad; you are hands-on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.
As a PE in the Amazon Device Management Systems org, you will have a greater say in defining the technical strategy and identifying the right long-term architecture for the device-business roadmap. While building the architecture, you will focus on the following tenets: security, availability, simplicity, and efficiency. You will have high visibility as you work with several engineering teams and their technical and product senior leadership, requiring exceptionally strong technical skills, business acumen, analytical skills, and the ability to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
Key Job Responsibilities
1. Define the long-term technical strategy and architecture vision for device management, leveraging new technologies to deliver features to our customers.
2. Think big and continuously pitch for foundational solutions that will help device businesses use these solutions instead of building their own.
3. Define the technical approach to ensure data privacy is considered while providing foundational solutions.
4. Partner with each device team to understand their customer needs and influence the adoption of new services.
5. Analyze the business opportunity to externalize more of our services to third-party device makers.
6. Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
7. Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the Amazon developer community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
8. Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader, builder, and operator. You’ll have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts and/or technology initiatives. You’ll be able to balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices. You’ll strive for simplicity and demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
* Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
* 10+ years of software engineering with a proven track record of leading large-scale projects.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture).
* Experience influencing groups outside their own VP from an architecture perspective.
* Experience enabling authentication and attestation for devices using cryptographic solutions.
* Knowledge of the latest sign-in standards like FIDO-alliance based Passkeys.
* Ability and willingness to multi-task and learn new technologies quickly.
Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.
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