Transaction Risk Investigator at Amazon

Amazon India is seeking dedicated, hardworking, analytical candidates with a proven track record of performance and results-oriented thinking, to join the Transaction Risk Management Team in Bangalore. Candidates will be responsible for a wide range of duties related to the investigation and elimination of online eCommerce risk. Ideal applicants will have experience in the eCommerce payments space, previous trust and safety experience, and experience succeeding in a customer-driven workplace. All candidates will be analytical and capable of succeeding in a fast-paced team environment.

The Transaction Risk Investigator position relies on excellent judgment to plan and accomplish goals and will work under very limited supervision of the Manager. Excellent individual problem-solving and analytic skills are used to authenticate customers and complex transactions. Nearly all decisions are expected to be made independently with little to no guidance and a high degree of accuracy.

The Transaction Risk Investigator will be required to engage in frequent written and verbal communication with department management, risk analysts, risk engineers, other company associates and third-parties to accomplish goals. They may also be required to contact customers by phone.

Productivity and quality assurance will be evaluated along with the overall contribution to the development of the department.

Communication Skills :

• Excellent written and spoken American English skills and an ability to compose a grammatically correct, concise and accurate written response
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex transactional issues correctly and clearly to both internal and external customers

Problem Solving Skills :

• Demonstrated ability to work independently and make complex investigation decisions with little to no guidance
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze problems logically
• Self discipline d, diligent, proactive and detail oriented
• Strong time management and organizational skills
• Effectively prioritizes work time to ensure productivity and fulfills department standards for time spent
• Excellent ability to determine situational needs and provide appropriate solutions

Qualifications :

• Demonstrated ability to exceed expectations with regard to performance and individual contribution
• Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills, including the ability to recognize non-obvious patterns
• Demonstrated positive, results oriented attitude
• Ability to effectively manage time, and individually prioritize multiple tasks of competing priority
• Ability to maintain high levels of confidentiality and data security standards
• Experience with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, and Excel
• 24/7/365 availability, including willingness to work on weekends, and outside of the "standard" work day
• Experience using UNIX preferred
• Six-Sigma certification is preferred

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Director, Analytics at Amazon

Amazon.com operates in a virtual, global eCommerce environment without boundaries, and operates a diverse set of businesses in seven countries, including Retail, third party marketplaces, eCommerce platforms, web services for developers. The Director of Analytics in Amazon India will build and lead a team of sophisticated statisticians and machine learning experts who will make a dramatic impact on Amazon through analytically driven decisions on high volume transaction data.

The idealized candidate is most likely to be a hybrid: part visionary/part leader/part builder/part operator. The right person has a unique blend of business judgment, strong product and program management experience, technical expertise and comfort with developing complex yet maintainable large-scale analytic and web-services, some sales and marketing experience in the technology industry, and strong hiring abilities. This needs to be a candidate that is clearly passionate about the large opportunity that the internet and web services present. This presents a significant intellectual and operational challenge with great free cash flow impact. As such, it demands a leader that is extremely attracted to the opportunity and is never satisfied with the results. The ideal candidate is passionate about delivery and achieving the right results, winning, being the developer's advocate, and building a vibrant, robust developer community.

Qualified candidates must be highly analytical, able to assess customer needs via primary and secondary research, adept at stepping back and thinking holistically, skilled at working cross-functionally across geographies and influencing others regardless of where they report in the org chart, experienced at leading teams of super-stars, and a strong oral and written communicator.

Initially, a primary responsibility of the team will be on risk management on the Amazon.com transaction and payment platforms. Responsibilities includes modeling payment risk and fraud, third party merchant risk and credit, assessment of customer risk and trustworthiness, and combating novel types of risk unique to the e-Commerce environment. Detailed responsibilities are:
1) Managing and building risk scoring systems: The Director Analysis will lead the design, development and deployment of state-of-the-art, data-driven predictive models using the latest technologies in statistical modeling, data mining, and machine learning.

Responsibilities include:

• Analyzing and understanding large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data for specific instances of risk or broader risk trends
• Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative models for risk management,
• Statistically evaluating and optimizing business rules and policies,
• Working closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time implementations of the models and operational business rules,
• Overseeing implementation of new risk controls, assessing their results, and assisting in the fine-tuning as necessary
• Working closely with operations staff to optimize fraud detection and risk management operations,
• Establishing scalable, efficient, repeatable processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation, and
• Collaborating with developers to identify and implement internal operational process improvements,
• Developing metrics and model reports for communication with business leaders,
• Tracking general business activity and providing clear, compelling management reporting on a regular basis
• Driving significant improvements in free cash flow through automation.

2) Building analytic systems for topline growth: The Director of Analysis will lead fundamental innovations in analytics for eCommerce to drive topline growth through customer acquisition and promotion activities. Developing a deep understanding of internet consumer-oriented businesses and developing uniquely differentiating analytic approaches suited to web-based businesses will be expected. Simple examples of such activities may include targeting co-branded credit cards using scoring models based on Amazon data, promoting adoption of gift certificates and stored value accounts, acquisition, retention and targeting for subscriptions of various types worldwide.

3) Managing and growing a sophisticated team of analysts: The Director of Analysis will be in charge of a growing a high performance team of analysts in India. He/She will be responsible for managing this team to peak efficiency, enriching the team with exceptional new talent, setting ambitious goals, and driving to operational excellence.

4) Define and meet/exceed service level agreements: The Director of Analysis is expected to define global service level agreements and decision quality metrics with his internal customers, and perform to meet/exceed their requirements. He/She will be expected to be true "owners" of analytics services, be accountable for decision quality and customer experience, and relentlessly drive to excellence.

The ideal candidate for this position would be a highly talented technical leader with 7+ years of exceptional hands-on experience in risk management in financial services, eCommerce, or an enterprise software company building and providing risk management services/software. He/she should have five years of experience managing teams of analysts. A PhD degree in a quantitative business field, operations research, computers science, statistics or related engineering discipline is required. Ability to mentor trained analysts with SAS and SQL experience, plus a good familiarity with BI tools and techniques is desired. The candidate should have good communication skills and good management and leadership experience in an applied setting. He/She should be strongly motivated by entrepreneurial projects and enjoy the opportunity to collaboratively work with a diverse and innovative team of engineers, analysts, operations personnel and business management to achieve superior bottomline results.

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Senior Risk Analyst at Amazon

In this role you will develop next generation risk minimization and fraud detection algorithms using Statistical and Operation Research principles. You will have strong analytical mindset and relevant industrial experience. You will demonstrate terrific attention to detail. You will have the ability to process large data stets spanning multiple geographies and multiple data sources. You will have the clear business intuition to connect the data trends to business realities. You will have the ability to explain technical concepts in a simple and sound business like manner. This role is considered as a high impact role to bottom-line as Programmer Analyst-Risk-analytics at Amazon.com.

Responsibilities :

• Demonstrate through technical knowledge on Statistical modeling, Probability and Decision theory, Operations Research techniques and other quantitative modeling techniques
• Understand the business reality behind large sets of data and develop meaningful models
• Connect with business problems related to buyer and seller risks and fraud management and develop cutting edge algorithms for risk mitigation
• Work closely with developers in clearly giving them the requirements towards deploying the algorithms and models in real time detection engines
• Perform ad hoc analysis time to time to understand new trends in risk modeling and fraud patterns
• Innovate by adapting new modeling techniques and procedures
• Take end to end ownership in thoroughly understanding the business problems and translating that into algorithms

Qualifications :

• MS required, PhD desired in either Industrial Engineering or Operations Research or Computer Science.
• Over 5 years of relevant risk management/analytics, financial modeling, credit & reporting experience, preferably in a commercial lending business
• Proven track record in understanding business problems and developing effective algorithms and solutions
• Knowledge of at least one major statistical data analysis systems like SAS or SPSS
• Ability to process large data sets from multiple data sources
• Prior experience in developing models for credit review, internal audit, and/or commercial underwriting is strongly preferred
• Experience in Predictive Analytical modeling such as forecasting using time series or any other such techniques is preferred
• Strong analytical mindset with willingness to Innovate
• Ability to work closely with highly qualified professional as a team
• Familiarity in working with SQL/C++ is preferred
• Comfortable in working with multiple operating systems
• Display entrepreneurial spirit in working
• Ability to work efficiently and effectively in fast paced environment with tight deadlines
• Willingness to Travel

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Risk Analyst at Amazon

In this role you will develop next generation risk minimization and fraud detection algorithms using Statistical and Operation Research principles. You will have strong analytical mindset and relevant industrial experience. You will demonstrate terrific attention to detail. You will have the ability to process large data stets spanning multiple geographies and multiple data sources. You will have the clear business intuition to connect the data trends to business realities. You will have the ability to explain technical concepts in a simple and sound business like manner. This role is considered as a high impact role to bottom-line as Programmer Analyst-Risk-analytics at Amazon.com.

Responsibilities :

• Demonstrate through technical knowledge on Statistical modeling, Probability and Decision theory, Operations Research techniques and other quantitative modeling techniques
• Understand the business reality behind large sets of data and develop meaningful models
• Connect with business problems related to buyer and seller risks and fraud management and develop cutting edge algorithms for risk mitigation
• Work closely with developers in clearly giving them the requirements towards deploying the algorithms and models in real time detection engines
• Perform ad hoc analysis time to time to understand new trends in risk modeling and fraud patterns
• Innovate by adapting new modeling techniques and procedures
• Take end to end ownership in thoroughly understanding the business problems and translating that into algorithms

Qualifications :

• MS required, PhD desired in either Industrial Engineering or Operations Research or Computer Science
• Over 3 years of relevant risk management/analytics, financial modeling, credit & reporting experience, preferably in a commercial lending business
• Proven track record in understanding business problems and developing effective algorithms and solutions
• Knowledge of at least one major statistical data analysis systems like SAS or SPSS
• Ability to process large data sets from multiple data sources
• Prior experience in developing models for credit review, internal audit, and/or commercial underwriting is strongly preferred
• Experience in Predictive Analytical modeling such as forecasting using time series or any other such techniques is preferred
• Strong analytical mindset with willingness to Innovate
• Ability to work closely with highly qualified professional as a team
• Familiarity in working with SQL/C++ is preferred
• Comfortable in working with multiple operating systems
• Display entrepreneurial spirit in working
• Ability to work efficiently and effectively in fast paced environment with tight deadlines
• Willingness to Travel

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Transaction Risk Investigator - German at Amazon

Amazon India is seeking dedicated, hardworking, analytical candidates with German language skills and a proven track record of performance and results-oriented thinking, to join the Transaction Risk Management Team in Bangalore. Candidates will be responsible for a wide range of duties related to the investigation and elimination of online eCommerce risk with experience succeeding in a customer-driven workplace. All candidates will be analytical and capable of succeeding in a fast-paced team environment.

The Transaction Risk Investigator position relies on excellent judgment to plan and accomplish goals and will work under very limited supervision of the Manager. Excellent individual problem-solving and analytic skills are used to authenticate customers and complex transactions. Nearly all decisions are expected to be made independently with little to no guidance and a high degree of accuracy.

The Transaction Risk Investigator will be required to engage in frequent written and verbal communication with department management, risk analysts, risk engineers, other company associates and third-parties to accomplish goals. They may also be required to contact customers by phone.Productivity and quality assurance will be evaluated along with the overall contribution to the development of the department.

Communication Skills:

• Conversational German skills and the ability to read German
• Excellent written and spoken American English skills and an ability to compose a grammatically correct, concise and accurate written response
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex transactional issues correctly and clearly to both internal and external customers

Problem Solving Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to work independently and make complex investigation decisions with little to no guidance
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze problems logically
• Self disciplined, diligent, proactive and detail oriented
• Strong time management and organizational skills
• Effectively prioritizes work time to ensure productivity and fulfills department standards for time spent
• Excellent ability to determine situational needs and provide appropriate solutions

Qualifications:

• Any Graduate with German language skills
• Experience with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, and Excel
• 24/7/365 availability, including willingness to work on weekends, and outside of the "standard" work day
• Experience using UNIX preferred
• Six-Sigma certification is preferred
• Demonstrated ability to exceed expectations with regard to performance and individual contribution
• Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills, including the ability to recognize non-obvious patterns
• Demonstrated positive, results oriented attitude
• Ability to effectively manage time, and individually prioritize multiple tasks of competing priority
• Ability to maintain high levels of confidentiality and data security standards

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Transaction Risk Investigator - Buyer Protection at Amazon

Buyer Protection (A-Z guarantee claims & charge backs)

Investigators in this position process customer disputes submitted by Amazon.com’s customer service department or by the buyers via our online form. This is an operational decision-making role that is very different from a typical customer service position in that high levels of discrimination and judgment are required during the investigation process to protect the interests of all involved. Persons in this position will also work on projects to minimize bad debt based on evaluation of third party seller profiles and buyer profiles. This is an exciting role that carries with it great responsibility.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Evaluate and determine the final disposition of Amazon A-to-z Guarantee claims correctly and efficiently, and in accordance with guidelines
• Respond to and resolve questions and concerns raised by Amazon Customer Service or Technical Account Managers/Seller Support
• Respond to and resolve questions or concerns raised by buyers and third party sellers
• Participate in special assignments to reduce bad debt for Amazon.com or improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the team's processes

As the investigator becomes more proficient, there is opportunity for additional projects and increasing responsibilities.

Requirements:

• Strong written communication skills. In particular, experience using and modifying pre-defined “blurbs” for communicating with customers.
• Analytical decision-making skills. Ability to gather data from different sources in order to compile a picture for critical decision-making.
• Strong verbal communication skills needed to work with teammates and other fraud department groups.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills, ideally gained through previous work experience in a customer service role
• Ability to use web-based and command line tools to view and resolve disputes (such as UNIX, Internet Explorer, etc.)
• Ability to work independently, balance workload proactively and communicate results to peers and supervisors
• SQL and Oracle query tools for mining data and creating reports for management
• Project Management experience a plus but not required
• French or German foreign language skills a plus but not required

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Quality Assurance Manager at Amajon

Amazon Web services team in Bangalore, India is looking for a leader to technically lead and manage the verification efforts for a cutting edge web-services based product offering from the Bangalore division. The verification efforts would include building of distributed frameworks/systems and tools for system testing (performance,stability,failure,scaling/load tests etc) as well as building the necessary frameworks for enabling the functional verification of the system (api testing as well as testing workflows, UI testing and automation, end-to-end testing, sanity testing etc). This team would also be responsible for coming up with the necessary processes to streamline build management, versioning, deployments etc and drive best practices and quality upstream in the software development life cycle. This team would consist of both software development engineers (for frameworks and automation) and software quality engineers for test strategy/planning, coming up with the test cases and driving the actual test execution and reporting.

As a manager of this team, the person would be responsible for

• setting the vision for the team and guiding the team towards that.
• hiring and staffing the team for success
• managing the performance of the team and project management of the delivery/execution of tasks for the team.
• As a hands on manager who is managing a small team, this person would be required to dive deep and be highly involved in the technical details of the work in the team.
• working closely with the product managers to thoroughly understand the product and drive the audit of all the work done in the team and be responsible for the overall quality of the product.
• coming up with process streamlining mechanisms for build/configuration/release management and the quality assurance/control processes.

Growth path for this role would consist of taking up larger scope of responsibility (including operational excellence of the released versions of the product, visualization tools/frameworks required etc) and eventually can grow into senior management roles or into product management roles as well.

The required qualifications for the applicants to this role are:

• Previous hands-on experience in Software development (preferably in a Java/linux environment).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Problem solving/analytical abilities and out of the box thinking.
• Participation in at least 2-3 full product development lifecycles from scratch (in any capacity).
• Hands on experience in driving quality processes, test planning and execution etc (or supervision of such activities in a lead capacity) OR hands-on experience in framework/tools development for testing.
• Passion for quality processes and attention to detail.
• Bachelors and/or Masters Degree in Computer Science (Preferably engineering degree)
• 5+ years of professional work experience with the latest work being in a managerial/team lead roles.

Desired qualifications for this role:

• Previous people management experience.
• Experience in distributed systems and web-services space.

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Quality Assurance Lead - Platform Verification Team at Amazon

Amazon Web services team in Bangalore, India is looking for an experienced Software Quality Engineer (SQE/QAE) to lead the verification efforts for a cutting edge web-services based product offering from the Bangalore division.

This person would be responsible for understanding the domain and the product in detail and coming up with the test strategy/planning,coming up with the test cases, driving the test case sign-off processes with the stakeholders, encoding of the test-cases into the API testing framework we use (requires writing of Java code similar to JUnit), test execution and reporting. This person would also work with the engineering managers and the product owners to define the exit criteria for the various test phases and act as an important stakeholder for the release gating process.

Depending on the candidate's skill sets they can also participate in the planning and execution of system level tests like load/scaling,stress/stability, performance tests etc and also in the building of the test automation frameworks and tools.

Growth path for this position would typically include Managerial roles in the verification space OR as test architects OR product management roles.

The required qualifications for the applicants to this role are:

• Bachelors and/or Masters Degree in Computer Science (Preferably engineering degree)
• 5+ years of professional work experience in the quality engineering space.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work in a team environment.
• Excellent problem solving/analytical skills.
• Attention to detail and a passion for quality.

Desired skills for this role would include:

• Ability to write code (preferably in Java) would be a big plus.
• Scripting abilities for build/test automation etc in any well-known scripting language (shell, perl, python, ruby etc).
• Previous experience in mentoring/leading (not necessarily people management, but as a technical lead) for at least a small team.
• Proven expertise (through experience) in the streamlining of processes for quality assurance/control.

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Quality Assurance Engineer at Amazon

As a Quality Assurance Engineer you will own the end-to-end test planning and the test case design for new programs and features. Responsibilities will include the maintenance of regression test cases for functional area and performing its regular testing, manually and/or with automation. With excellent communication skills you establish and enforce effective processes with the development team and act as an advocate for the customer.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate would be innovative and have great problem solving and analytical skills. Experience with Black Box and White Box testing in a Web environment is required. Knowledge of scripting languages like Perl or other is required. Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential. Experience with software testing lifecycle process, release management and bug life cycle is required. Experience with Object Oriented technology is highly desired. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is highly desired.

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Quality Assurance Engineer at Amazon

As a Quality Assurance Engineer you will own the end-to-end test planning and the test case design for new programs and features. Responsibilities will include the maintenance of regression test cases for functional area and performing its regular testing, manually and/or with automation. With excellent communication skills you establish and enforce effective processes with the development team and act as an advocate for the customer.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate would be innovative and have great problem solving and analytical skills. Experience with Black Box and White Box testing in a Web environment is required. Knowledge of scripting languages like Perl or other is required. Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential. Experience with software testing lifecycle process, release management and bug life cycle is required. Experience with Object Oriented technology is highly desired. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is highly desired.

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Systems Engineer at Amazon

As a Systems Engineer, you will be a part of the IT department in managing Unix and Windows servers, the networking equipment, voice network and the LAN/WAN environment.

Place : India

For this position, you should have the following qualifications:

• BE in CS/EE.
• Minimum 3 years experience in the IT field.
• Scripting experience in perl and shell.
• Extremely proficient in Linux and generic Unix concepts and tools.
• Well-versed with enterprise class software and hardware, including RAID, clusters, Red hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Server 2003, Exchange 2003.
• Cisco certification preferable.
• Very good with diagnosing network, hardware and software problems.
• Experience in handling Unix services ( NIS, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, NFS).
• Willing to be on-call during designated periods.
• Familiarity with PBX and VoIP technology, familiar with VPN and encryption technology.
• Strong documenting skills.
• Knowledgeable about protocols and the evolution of the Internet.
• Resourcefulness and the ability to find the solution to a problem quickly using web and published resources.

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Software Development Engineer - Datawarehousing at Amazon

Place : India
Software Development Engineer - Datawarehousing should be able to:

• Design and build reliable, scalable and high performing enterprise systems.
• Possess sound understanding in data modelling, implementation details in a target database (Oracle - SQL & PL/SQL) & its features for data warehousing.
• Bring 3-8 years of software engineering and product delivery experience, with strong background in high performance distributed systems.
• Good knowledge of data warehousing & ETL processes.
• Good knowledge of Oracle Database internals - to develop high performance code.
• Unix shell scripting with perl, python or other scripting languages.
• Knowledge of other databases like MySQL is a plus.
• Knowledge of BI tools for ETL or reporting is a plus.
• Knowledge of java is a plus.

Required : B.E/B.Tech/M.E/M.Tech degree in computer science is required.

Software Developement Engineer at Amazon # Show : Software Development Engineer I & II - Bangalore

SDEs at Amazon should be able to:

• Design and build extremely reliable, scalable and high performing enterprise systems in about one-third the time that most competent people think possible.
• Possess an extremely sound understanding of areas in Computer Science such as Algorithms, Object Oriented Design, Distributed Systems, Transaction Processing, Search and Information Retrieval and Operating Systems.
• Be able to write Amazon quality code in an object oriented language (preferably Java).
• Bring 5-12 years of software engineering and product delivery experience, with strong background in algorithms and high performance distributed systems.
• B.E/B.Tech/M.E/M.Tech/Phd degree in computer science or related fields, or equivalent experience, is required.

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Technical Architect ( Software Development Engineer III ) at Amazon

• Advanced software development and technical leadership capabilities. Strong system architect with standard-setting software development skills. Expert proficiency in one or more areas.
• Advanced knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Capable of independent full systems design, including requirements gathering, specifications, and coding.
• Capable of playing a technical leadership role for complete product cycles. Has built and delivered complex systems that leverage our technology platform and work well with other company systems.
• Capable of applying advanced software development theory and skills to architect, design and build complex systems.
• Heavily involved in scoping the technical requirements for a new project, and identifying the appropriate technology solutions for each project.
• Will work very closely with other technical leads to make sure that the pieces of the complex system work well with the other dependent systems.
• Work requires significant creativity and judgment.
• Ability to work independently with little review by more senior engineers. Would play a significant role with engineering managers to determine potential risks to a schedule. Would help develop long-term department technology strategies and significantly influences the cross-company engineering processes and standards. Should be able to influence engineering best practices.
• Skilled consensus builder. Should be able to work very closely with end users to make sure the application or system meets the needs of the business. Would play a consultative role with other senior engineers/engineering managers on broad technology decisions
• Mentor, develop, and train engineers. Would play a significant role in hiring great engineers.
• B.S. degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics. 8-15 years of relevant, broad engineering experience.

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Principal Software Development Engineer at Amazon

Principal Engineers provide technical leadership at Amazon.com. They help establish performance and technical standards for the software we build and help drive Amazon’s overall technical architecture and engineering methodologies. They’re responsible for maintaining and raising our technical standards by mentoring and reviewing the work of other engineers.

Principal Engineers recommend and build high quality, architecturally sound systems that align to the business needs of the organization they support. They think globally when building systems, ensuring we build high performing, scalable systems that fit well together.

Principal Engineers are pragmatic visionaries who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Their expertise is deep and broad. They are hands on, producing both detailed technical work (i.e. writing code) and high-level architectural designs. They often provide leadership on the most complex technology applications in the company.

Principal Engineer:

• Has authority over technical decisions for particular projects within a part of our business.
• Proposes and sells new ideas to department managers and engineering leaders. Helps develop long-term department strategies and influences group leadership decisions.
• Should have played a technical leadership role for several complete product cycles. Has built and owned large, complex systems.
• Should be the Go-to person in at least one major functional or technical area
• Manages the most complex projects, with significant bottom-line impact. Delivers on short-term and long-term targets.
• Mentors and trains the engineering community on complex technical issues
• Requires a B.S. degree or higher in Computer Science with 10-20 years of relevant, broad engineering experience.

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Technical Product / Program Manager at Amazon

Technical Product/Program Managers (TPPMs) at Amazon should be able to:

• Apply deep and broad technical and business understanding to research, identify and help select high-ROI business.
• Drive the strategy and technical design, assemble the right project team, assign individual responsibilities, identify appropriate resources needed, and develop the milestones and schedule to ensure timely and successful delivery of the project or system.
• Contribute to cross-functional teams with technical and product expertise, assess and manage risks, anticipate and resolve bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, balance the business needs with the technical constraints, and encourage risk taking behavior to maximize business benefit.
• Have 5 plus years of experience

B.E/M.E in CS with an MBA is preferred.

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Senior Leader - Web Services at Amazon

Amazon has spent ten years and over $1 billion developing a world-class technology and content platform that powers the Amazon web sites for millions of customers every day. Amazon.com told software developers, "Surprise Us!” by opening itself up through Web services in July 2002. Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to identify and expose more atomic pieces of the Amazon technology platform and product data nearly every day thus providing a flexible set of foundational services that allow developers to build creative applications. Since 2002, developers have used Amazon Web Services to build innovative applications from Associate web sites and e-commerce tools to consumer applications.

The Amazon Development Center in India (Bangalore) is at the core of Amazon's effort to expose even more of its platform and data to help developers innovate and build businesses. The center has end-to-end ownership of its business area of focus and is seeking a leader to drive the product roadmap, positioning, adoption, and growth of their Web Services offerings.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the competitive landscape, soliciting and distilling feedback from our developers into actionable product improvements, prioritizing where they should invest next, building business justifications and plans for their web services offerings, and developing a product roadmap.
• Driving definition and delivery for various releases and offerings by working closely with the engineering teams.
• Working with the Sr. Management to create pricing, merchandising, marketing/sales and launch plans for their various releases and offerings.
• Working with the AWS Developer relations team to drive developer adoption by building an easy to use Sandbox, getting SDKs created in multiple programming languages, building a library of educational modules and code/application samples, driving developer communications via their developer portal, discussion boards, live chats, blogs and email, building improved technical support and documentation and providing significant input into technical evangelism and strategic partnerships.
• Driving continuous improvement of the product offerings by soliciting and incorporating developer feedback and focusing on defining and meeting/exceeding service levels for their offerings
• Demonstrating a high bar in sourcing, hiring and managing a super-star team of product and program managers, software development engineers and technical writers.
• Participating in decision making for General Management functions in the center.

The Candidate:

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, computer science, or related discipline required.
• Master’s degree and/or PhD preferred in mathematics, computer science, or related discipline preferred but not required.
• MBA preferred.
• The idealized candidate is most likely to be a hybrid: part visionary/part leader/part builder/part operator.
• The right person has a unique blend of business judgment, strong product and program management experience in the internet space, technical comfort, sales and marketing experience in the technology industry, and strong hiring abilities.
• Clearly passionate about the large opportunity that web services present. This presents a significant intellectual and operational challenge with great free cash flow impact.
• A leader that is extremely attracted to the opportunity and is never satisfied with the results.
• The ideal candidate is passionate about delivery and achieving the right results, winning, being the developer's advocate, and building a vibrant, robust developer community.
• Qualified candidates must be highly analytical, able to assess customer needs via primary and secondary research, adept at stepping back and thinking holistically, skilled at working cross-functionally and influencing others regardless of where they report in the org chart, experienced at leading teams of super-stars, and a strong oral and written communicator.
• Leader must command the respect – and be able to lead a team of – world class product and program managers and software development engineers.
• This leader also needs to have proven ability to define and meet service level agreements. It is important that this leader have an operational component to their leadership skill set.

Professional Traits

The Ideal Candidate:

• Hires great people. Develops great people.
• Has relentlessly high standards (to the point that most other people would think they are being unreasonable)
• Operates at all heading levels.
• No task is beneath this person.
• Expects and requires innovation of her/his team.
• Has a conviction.
• Results oriented.
• Thinks big.
• Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others.

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Pizza Team Lead at Amazon

Two Pizza Team Leaders (2PTL) in Amazon manage an autonomous, cross-functional team to identify, rationalize, and achieve business and technology objectives in a defined opportunity area.

They are both strategic and tactical leaders, who establish the vision and objectives for an area, then deliver the end-to-end solution - products, services, features, or systems - that will meet rigorous business metrics.

2PTL's at Amazon should be able to:

• Bring a deep understanding of software development, technical program management, product or services development, and people management to this high-accountability role.
• Apply deep and broad technical and business understanding and creativity to identify and select high-ROI business opportunities.
• Bring proven experience building, managing, focusing, and developing/mentoring cross-functional teams that include software engineers and technical product/program managers.
• A minimum of 8 years of software development and leadership experience

B.E/M.E/PhD in CS is required.

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Technical Recruting at Amazon

At Amazon, we strive to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. We’ve invested more than $2 billion in technology and content to date to solve some of the most complex technical challenges in distributed systems, operations, data mining, optimization, scalability, security and algorithms.

Software Development Engineer, High-Transaction Systems
Do you enjoy building and scaling huge, high-transaction, distributed systems with terabyte-sized databases on the back end? Are you excited by the thought of pushing technology to do things you never thought possible? Our Ordering, Performance Engineering, Software Platform Services, Web Services and other teams are looking for people like you.

Software Development Engineer, Algorithms
Do you love solving complex problems through math and statistics? Does work that leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning and information retrieval get your blood pumping? Teams across our company hire people like you, including Personalization, Fraud Prevention, Supply Chain Optimization and more.

Software Development Engineer, Test
Are you detail-oriented with a knack for breaking code and finding weaknesses in complex software? Would building automated, scalable tools that can find and fix those weaknesses across huge distributed systems get you up in the morning? Almost every development team around our company hires people like you.

Software Development Engineer, Developer Tools
Do you enjoy the study of software development? Do you want to apply your advanced software development skills to automate processes and create cool development tools? This is an important role at Amazon.com. Opportunities await people like you in our Developer Tools, Infrastructure Tools and QA Tools teams.

Software Development Engineer, User Interface
Do you enjoy developing user interfaces that give end users a world-class experience? Can you create interfaces that can scale and interact with large, distributed back-end systems? Does the idea of running usability tests seen by millions of customers excite you? Groups around the company hire people like you, including Web-Site Usability, Digital Media Technologies, Seller Applications, Community Technologies, Personalization, Web Services and more.

Software Development Engineer, Merchant Integration
Would you enjoy building and integrating technology solutions--front end and back end--that allow third-party retailers to leverage the Amazon.com platform? Would you be excited to work with almost every part of Amazon's technology to build turnkey e-commerce solutions for some of the biggest names in the physical retailing world? The Enterprise Commerce Services team hires people like you.

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Systems Engineering Software Developer at IMDb

If you're a top notch system software developer and a fan of movies and TV, we've got the ideal job for you.

• There are many good reasons to work at IMDb, and here are several of them:
• You can make a huge difference at IMDb. We've already developed a successful business model and a stable production environment, so our programmers spend their time developing and launching cool projects with little red tape and lots of autonomy.
• We offer flexibility both in terms of your day-to-day work schedule and also in terms of work assignments.
• Our software developers provide lots of creative input into projects and get to work on many different types of projects that allow them to think creatively and to handle interesting computer science challenges.
• We have a great environment of talented people who work hard to make IMDb the most credible media source on the planet.

All software positions require a minimum of a bachelor's degree in computer science with three plus years of industry programming experience. Our primary development language is Perl in the Linux/Unix environment, so a solid base of skills in OO Perl and working knowledge of database integration (MySQL or Postgres) are core skills.

The tech team creates, maintains and enhances our customer facing websites. In addition to core Perl & database skills, we need employees who can function independently while also interacting efficiently with other team members. This role is focused on improving and growing our infrastructure and systems admin toolset. Background and skills in one or more of building testing environments, performance analysis and tuning, virtual computing, robust deployments, and server scaling are important.

IMDb is owned by Amazon.com, but we operate separately and have our own technology systems. When you join IMDb, you become a full-fledged Amazon.com employee - which means you enjoy the cohesive work environment of a small company while also gaining the bigger benefits of working for a Fortune 500 company. It's the best of both worlds.

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