Principal Software Engineer, IES LATECH & GIS

Amazon; São Paulo; On-site; BRL 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Brazil is seeking a Principal Engineer to define the technical strategy and architecture for two key charters within Latin America growth. You will own the architecture for a large, multi-city engineering organization spanning FBA and retail, guiding high-throughput systems and critical services to support rapid marketplace expansion.

You will work with senior leaders, drive modernization initiatives, and shape AI/GenAI strategies to boost engineering productivity while maintaining strict

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience architecting services processing high-throughput transactions with stringent availability (99.99%+).
• Experience leading technical strategy across multiple engineering teams and driving alignment.
• Experience with system migration and modernization at scale while preserving production traffic.
• Strong track record of influencing technical direction without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical strategy for Brazil's Tax Reform across multiple systems.
• Drive migration from legacy systems to a modern event-driven platform with zero downtime.
• Collaborate with senior leaders across organizations and geographies to shape engineering standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

High-throughput design

Technical leadership

Legacy migration

Influence across teams

Job description

Are you excited by the challenge of building systems that power every transaction in Latin America's fastest-growing e-commerce marketplace? We're looking for a Principal Engineer (PE) to define the technical strategy and architecture for 2 of our key charters as part of Amazon growth in Latin America technology team within International Emerging Stores (IES) Latin America.

In this role, you will be the PE for a large, multi-city engineering organization, owning the architecture across two interconnected domains — expansion of Amazon logistic domains for sellers (FBA) and retail — spanning multiple critical services (99.99% up time) and a broad portfolio of systems. You'll shape the technical direction for high-throughput systems processing government-mandated invoices at massive scale, supporting a rapidly growing marketplace with 30%+ year-over-year growth.

Key job responsibilities

• You will lead the technical strategy for Brazil's Tax Reform — the most significant fiscal transformation in the country's history — impacting hundreds of systems across multiple technology organizations, with immovable government deadlines and zero tolerance for non-compliance. You'll architect solutions that allow Amazon's fulfillment network to significantly expand across Brazilian states, driving new capabilities in cross-docking, sub-same-day delivery, transshipment, and multi-Tax ID management.
• You will drive the migration from legacy systems to a modern event-driven platform, targeting substantial reduction in compliance implementation effort while maintaining zero downtime across dozens of use cases. You'll establish AI/GenAI strategies for engineering acceleration and set engineering standards across a rapidly growing organization.
• This role demands regular collaboration with senior technical and business leaders up to VP/SVP level, and cross-organizational influence across hundreds of engineers in multiple partner organizations including Tax Engine, GIS, SCOT, FBA WW, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies, ShipTech, and Transportation Finance Services. You'll work daily with world-class engineers across São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Mexico City, Seattle, and Vancouver.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with significant time spent designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Experience architecting services processing high-throughput transactions (millions+ daily) with stringent availability requirements (99.99%+)
• Experience leading technical strategy across multiple engineering teams and driving alignment across organizational boundaries
• Experience with system migration and modernization at scale — replacing legacy systems while maintaining production traffic and backwards compatibility
• Strong track record of influencing technical direction without direct authority, building consensus across diverse stakeholder groups

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with event-driven and asynchronous architectures, including event-sourced systems with complex orchestration flows and exactly-once processing guarantees
• Experience operating in highly regulated environments where system failures carry severe business or legal consequences
• Experience establishing engineering excellence practices, operational standards, and developer productivity strategies across large organizations
• Experience with AI/ML or GenAI applied to engineering productivity or domain automation
• Proficiency in English

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