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At Amazon Photos, we're revolutionizing how people preserve and relive their most precious memories. Our service delights millions of customers across mobile, web, desktop, Amazon devices, and Alexa experiences.
We're seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to drive technical innovation and architecture across Amazon Photos. This role will shape the technical strategy for our next generation of photo and video services, focusing on scaling our infrastructure, advancing our AI/ML capabilities, and creating seamless experiences across mobile, web, and Amazon devices. As a senior technical leader, you'll work across teams to solve complex engineering challenges while serving millions of customers who trust us with their most precious memories.
Key job responsibilities
. Own and architect critical technical decisions that impact Amazon Photos long-term success and scalability
. Drive innovation in areas such as cloud infrastructure, computer vision, machine learning, and distributed systems
. Provide technical leadership across multiple teams, influencing architecture and engineering practices
. Partner with senior leadership to define technical strategy and roadmap
. Mentor engineers and leaders while raising the technical bar across the organization
. Identify and solve complex technical challenges around processing, storing, and serving massive amounts of photo and video content
. Champion operational excellence and engineering best practicesOwn and architect critical technical decisions that impact Amazon Photos long-term success and scalability
. Drive innovation in areas such as cloud infrastructure, computer vision, machine learning, and distributed systems
. Provide technical leadership across multiple teams, influencing architecture and engineering practices
. Partner with senior leadership to define technical strategy and roadmap
. Mentor engineers and leaders while raising the technical bar across the organization
. Identify and solve complex technical challenges around processing, storing, and serving massive amounts of photo and video content
. Champion operational excellence and engineering best practices
About the team
Amazon Photos helps millions of customers preserve and relive their memories through innovative technology. Our team builds and operates services that process billions of photos and videos. We're tackling exciting technical challenges in cloud infrastructure, AI/ML, computer vision, and distributed systems at massive scale. Our culture emphasizes deep technical expertise, customer obsession, and long-term thinking.
. Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
. 10+ years experience in building large scale distributed systems
. Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment
. Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
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Job ID: 131365591
Skills:
queuing , Logging, Spring Boot, Django, Streaming, Docker, FastAPI, metrics, Kubernetes, Computer Vision, tracing, Sanic, asynchronous patterns, caching strategies, automated testing frameworks, observability
Skills:
model selection , Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure, rollback experimentation, automated regression frameworks, fallback strategies, unconstrained interaction models, live traffic sampling, real-time performance monitoring, offline test sets, caching strategies, model serving infrastructure, AI capability routing and orchestration, ML inference infrastructure, intent orchestration, model and prompt release gating, Speech Processing, observability tooling, evaluation and quality assurance infrastructure, large-scale AI platform engineering, intelligent query classification
Skills:
architectural patterns , .NET Core Framework, Distributed Systems, SQL Server, System Design, Restful Apis, Microservices, DevOps Practices
Skills:
Ml, Cloud Infrastructure, distributed databases, large-scale distributed systems, Ai, high-throughput APIs, real-time data processing, architectural strategy
Skills:
Machine Learning, Amazon S3, Kafka, Kinesis, Docker, Terraform, Python, Logging, AWS, Java, RDS, Dynamodb, Node.js, Redshift, Jenkins, MLops, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon SageMaker, Automated testing frameworks, Observability, Monitoring, AWS Solutions Architect, Event-driven services, Glue, Amazon Bedrock
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