Description

　　The Commerce Platform provides the back and front-end services that enable customers to purchase services and understand and manage their infrastructure costs. Our teams tackle some of the hardest scalability, performance, and distributed computing challenges the world. We process trillions of events per month using stream processing techniques (Kinesis), process billions of line items via map reduce (EMR), and manage artifacts through the latest in database technologies (DynamoDB and Aurora). We process big data and provide tools for customers to interactively understand their bills. We also provide the analytics that let customers manage billions of dollars of IT usage and spending. Because we sit at the nexus of all services and interact directly with end-customers, we also work closely across all teams to ensure that we offer a great customer experience.

　　Principal Engineers are fundamentally passionate about designing scalable and resilient platforms, innovating and supporting new product architectures and business models, and doing so in a generalizable way that enables platform clients to innovate in ways we may not have foreseen. And as we solve these problems, we productize them, enabling external software developers and companies to take advantage of the scale and performance of the cloud

　　You’ll think globally when building systems, ensuring we build high performing, scalable systems that fit well together. We are looking for pragmatic visionaries who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Your expertise is deep and broad; you’re hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.

　　As a Principal Engineer on our team, you will work with leaders across the Commerce Platform to define our business and architecture vision. You will balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices. You will own the architecture, existing and future, for our platform components. You will share your updates with leadership, get buy-in, and work with all stakeholder teams to maintain industry leadership.

　　You will be the default mentor for all engineers on the team, establish and demand best practices through your engineering leadership. You will immerse yourself in your team’s entire software development lifecycle to have a hands-on impact. You’ll strive for simplicity, and demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment. You will take on the most challenging design and development problems personally and lead by example to deliver exceptional results that reflect a keen understanding of our customers’ needs and our business vision.

　　We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

　　Berlin, BE, DEU

　　Basic Qualifications

　　Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms

　　Experience (non-internship) in professional software development

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　Experience in full-stack mobile development- android /iOS or modern web browsers and services mainly in Java in a Linux or Unix environment

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

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