Principal Software Engineer, Amazon Translation Services

About the role

Translation Services is seeking a Principal Engineer to own the technical vision and multi-year roadmap spanning text, image, long form content, audio and video translations. This engineer will help collaborate with teams across multiple geos (Seattle and Hyderabad), define direction for novel problem spaces with limited industry precedent, and bridge science breakthroughs into production-ready systems operating at Amazon scale.

Responsibilities

This person will be responsible for collaborating with tech teams in designing solutions for translating billions of words annually across multiple and expanding set of locales. The goal is to build solutions with minimal human touch involved in any language translation and ensure accurate translated text is available to our worldwide customers in a streamlined and optimized manner.

You will work closely with business partners, applied scientists, software development engineers, and product managers to accelerate building solutions to expand translation capabilities. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define science and engineering strategy, define product features, drive system architecture, and spearhead the best-practices that enable a quality product. You will also influence the development processes, and develop well-rounded skills such as leadership, and effective project management. Throughout, you should possess creativity, curiosity, and excellent judgment to thrive in an environment of ambiguity.

A day in the life includes spending your days collaborating with scientists, developers, customers, stakeholders, and converting the business needs into a data-driven solution. You will support a team to design and execute localization products. You will dive deep into the data and balance technical execution with longer term strategy.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience partnering with product and program management teams
• Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• Demonstrated experience leveraging generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency and productivity, with the ability to craft effective prompts and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs in a professional setting
• Experience identifying opportunities to integrate AI solutions into products and services to drive business value.