The PIXIE team is looking for a passionate and innovative engineer with a solid technical background to join the engineering team. The Publisher Ingestion eXperIEnce (PIXIE) team is a new team in HQ2 with the goal of delivering a world-class catalogue ingestion experience for authors, publishers, and retailers around the world. Our tech is focused on ensuring quality data is ingested into the books catalog, and presented accurately to the end user. Additionally, the team innovates by creating automated tools to detect content and metadata issues, allowing Ops teams to fix issues detected in the catalog.

This team is part of MOD Tech, which is is part of KIX, that creates technology to empower authors to publish in both Kindle and Print (through Print-On-Demand) formats on kdp.amazon.com so that our customers—readers—have the largest catalog of books possible. We own Print-on-Demand tech all up, including publishing through Kindle Enterprise Publishing (kep.amazon.com) and the tech required to manufacture and ship books globally. We also own and develop Mesa, a group of software components built to greatly decrease the effort required to launch other ingestion businesses within Amazon (such as Merch By Amazon, Prime Video Direct, Kindle Periodicals, Amazon Music, etc.).

Successful candidate will have a background in the development of distributed systems, a solid technical ability, good communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

Key job responsibilities
If you are looking to work with team of engineers that relentlessly innovate and push the envelope keeping customers at the center of its universe, continually raising the bar and delivering results with velocity, then this is the space and place to be in.
Specifically, within the team the SDE is responsible for ensuring the team’s software maintains a high bar with respect to quality, security, architecture, scalability and operational excellence. They take the lead on the design and delivery of major features and takes the lead on re-architecting significant technology components, while engaging with and influencing their team, external teams, partners, and leadership along the way. They are able to identify the root cause of widespread/pervasive issues including areas where it limits innovation and prevents accelerated delivery of projects, while navigating several systems and components they may or may not own. They are able to effectively communicate with their team and others, take calculated risks, anticipate and mitigate long-term risk, and make reasonable tradeoffs when situation demands it. mentoring less experienced engineers and providing career development opportunities, while providing constructive feedback to their peers.

About the team
We are passionate about catalog data quality and the ingestion experience. This role will help design and engineer the future of the data ingestion for publishers and authors, while focusing on the highest catalog data quality and the display page experience for the books customer. Come be a part of the team that has dynamic and high caliber engineers!

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

Arlington, VA, USA