Amazon Principal Engineer Shopbop 

United States, Wisconsin, Madison 

63783895

As a PE at Shopbop, you will operate primarily as an integrator. You will dive deep to identify customer problems to solve and drive alignment on solutions across both Shopbop and equivalent Amazon tools that have been designed with different use cases and workflows in mind. You will invent new ways to achieve outcomes beyond status quo operating procedures.Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Engineer, you will:
• 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.
• 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.

Your education and experience include:
• BS degree or higher in CS with 10+ years of relevant, broad engineering experience required
• Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, high-quality systems focused on the platform and application layers of the technology stack
• Demonstrated passion for customer experience and usability, including successful delivery of customer self-service tools and automated management/optimization of services, and a strong services orientation.
• Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: large scale full stack development, building complex distributed systems, designing massive global networks
• Experience managing complex projects, with significant bottom-line impact
• Experience leading development life cycle process and best practices
• Experience mentoring/training the engineering community on complex technical issues

• Demonstrated passion for customer experience and usability, including successful delivery of customer self-service tools and automated management/optimization of services, and a strong services orientation.
• Master’s degree or higher preferred
• 15+ years of relevant experience