Principal Software Engineer, IES LATECH & GIS

Amazon is hiring a Principal Software Engineer, IES LATECH & GIS in São Paulo, Brazil. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
The posting mentions distributed systems, software architecture and event driven architecture among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a lead role.
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Lead technical strategy and architecture for large-scale e-commerce expansion in Latin America while establishing AI strategies for engineering acceleration.

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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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How we rate this

Principal Software Engineer, IES LATECH & GIS at Amazon rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Principal Software Engineer, IES LATECH & GIS is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 2 of 4: Uses AI.
The role is based in BR, SP, Sao Paulo.
The job was posted on June 30, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Pay

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