Principal Software Engineer, Prime Video Commerce Tech

• Lead the technical direction for the commerce platform’s offer-to-payment architecture, making critical decisions on system design, service boundaries, and data contracts for performance, scalability, and resilience at millions of TPS • Define and drive a multi-year architecture transformation – to improve resiliency, monitorability, and to deliver flexibility and speed • Be Hands on to deliver goals tracked at the Amazon executive bench level • Drive innovation in AI/GenAI-powered commerce - designing agent-callable service interfaces, AI-native development workflows, and intelligent decision making systems • Collaborate across multiple organizations to align technical vision and priorities, influencing decisions at VP level & above without direct authority • Define best practices for system architec BASIC QUALIFICATIONS • 12+ years of software development experience with deep expertise in distributed systems • Track record of leading architecture transformations across multiple teams and services (not just designing — driving adoption) • Experience operating systems at large scale (millions of TPS) with high availability • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority across organizational boundaries • Hands-on practitioner: you write code, review designs, and prototype — not just govern from a distance • Experience with service-oriented architecture evolution (decomposition, interface harmonization, platform building) PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS • Commerce, payments, or subscription systems at global scale (multi-currency, multi-territory, regulatory complexity) • Hands-on experience with AI/GenAI — both as a development practice (AI-native SDLC) and as a system capability (agent-callable services, intelligent decision making) • Experience with resiliency engineering (graceful degradation, blast-radius isolation, chaos testing) • Track record of mentoring senior engineers toward Principal-level scope and judgment • Rapid experimentation

Amazon is a global technology company operating in e-commerce, cloud computing (AWS), digital streaming, advertising and artificial intelligence. Its India operations span development centres in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Gurugram and Mumbai, covering retail technology, AWS infrastructure, Alexa, advertising, payments and supply-chain systems.