Amazon Principal Software Engineer Discovery Tech 

Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona 

836662743

Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Engineer you will 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 inter-dependencies 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.
• Navigate with other teams in Amazon and influence their design and roadmap decisions for the benefit of our region.
• Collaborate with the business teams to identify opportunities and innovate on behalf of our customers

- Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development

- Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture)