Principal Software Engineer, Amazon Translation Services

Have you ever wondered how Amazon launches and maintains a consistent customer experience across hundreds of countries and languages it serves its customers If so we have an exciting opportunity for you!

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 collobarte 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.

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.

With access to vast amounts of data technology and a diverse community of talented individuals you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the way customers and stakeholders engage with Amazon and our platform worldwide. This role requires strong hands on technical skills. You must have a demonstrated ability for optimizing developing launching and maintaining large-scale production systems.

As a key member of the team you will oversee all aspects of the software lifecycle: design experimentation implementation and testing. You should be willing to dive deep when needed move rapidly with a bias for action and get things done. You should have an entrepreneurial spirit know how to deliver and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems. This role will demand resourcefulness and willingness to learn on both the technical and business side.

Key job responsibilities
In this role 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
You will spend 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.


About the team
Translation Services is entering a phase where the problems ahead are fundamentally different from the problems weve solved. Our text translation stack is production-grade and serving 30 language pairs across Retail. But the next frontier image translation video subtitle localization long form text and automated quality evaluation represents novel problems at Amazon scale with limited industry precedent.

- 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

- 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.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 220100.00 - 297700.00 USD annually