Merch on Demand is tackling some of Amazon's most challenging problems at scale, including: Configurable Product, Customizable Product Discovery, Manufacturing on Demand, while optimizing selection Worldwide. Our business is already delivering for our customers, and yet we are only just scratching the surface of both the technical and business opportunities in front of us. We build on core tech to create differentiated experiences, and push the bounds of bringing Customization to Amazon Customers at scale. We utilize Applied Science and Machine Learning to accelerate and scale, and we rely on enormous amounts of data, with crisp analytics, to understand our past and make decisions about our future.

Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Software Development Engineer on the Merch on Demand team, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the development of our services. You will be chartered with creating and operating systems that cover an end-to-end global create-on-demand business at Amazon scale. Your scope will cover Content Creation, Catalog Selection and Content Moderation, Shopping Experiences, Fulfillment technology, and Applied Science and Data Insights. You will drive best practices in operational excellence, engineering excellence, and ensure system performance and availability during peak periods through planning and automation. As part of the Amazon Consumer organization, you will have the opportunity to influence the broader strategy for Amazon for on-demand products.


A day in the life
• 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 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.