About Bazaarvoice
At Bazaarvoice, we create smart shopping experiences. Through our expansive global network, product-passionate community & enterprise technology, we connect thousands of brands and retailers with billions of consumers. Our solutions enable brands to connect with consumers and collect valuable user-generated content, at an unprecedented scale. This content achieves global reach by leveraging our extensive and ever-expanding retail, social & search syndication network. And we make it easy for brands & retailers to gain valuable business insights from real-time consumer feedback with intuitive tools and dashboards. The result is smarter shopping: loyal customers, increased sales, and improved products.
The problem we are trying to solve : Brands and retailers struggle to make real connections with consumers. It's a challenge to deliver trustworthy and inspiring content in the moments that matter most during the discovery and purchase cycle. The result? Time and money spent on content that doesn't attract new consumers, convert them, or earn their long-term loyalty.
Our brand promise : closing the gap between brands and consumers.
Founded in 2005, Bazaarvoice is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
It’s official: Bazaarvoice is a Great Place to Work in the US , Australia and the UK!
Who We Want:
Bazaarvoice works with thousands of clients and hundreds of millions consumers to gather user-generated content on hundreds of millions of products across a variety of industries. Our teams leverage these data sets to help our clients build better products, build stronger relationships with their customers, and make decisions on when and where to offer products. We operate at massive scale.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be the technical lead/architect across several major engineering groups in our North America Engineering organization. These groups are responsible for our overall cloud-centric infrastructure, primary and regionally distributed data storage, streaming data platforms, internal data warehousing, client-facing social commerce interactions, and content scheduling. You will work with senior product and engineering stakeholders to set strategy and objectives for our North America Engineering teams, as well as our global Engineering team. This role combines technical thought leadership with hands-on coding to make the vision a reality across multiple teams
What you'll be doing:
- Lead the design and delivery of complex, mission-critical systems built & deployed on Amazon Web Services
- Analyze, prototype and evolve strategic Engineering architectural patterns
- Individual Contributor (expected to be hands-on coder 30%-70% of the time)
- Interview and recruit top talent for Engineering’s staffing needs
- Mentor highly talented technical engineers within the organization
Necessary skills and experience:
- 15 years of overall relevant Software Engineering experience
- 10 years Architecting, Designing and Building large-scale, multi-use systems on public cloud hosting providers
- 5 years in an AWS environment
- Extensive knowledge in modern cloud technologies and streaming data processing capabilities (Serverless, Kafka, Containerization, globally distributed database offerings, etc.)
- Expert communication skills (including influencing skills across multiple teams)
Nice to have:
- Ecommerce industry experience
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders across multiple geographies
This job can be remote.
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Why join Bazaarvoice?
Customer is key
We see our own success through our customers’ outcomes.
We approach every situation with a customer first mindset.
Transparency & Integrity Builds Trust
We believe in the power of authentic feedback because it’s in our DNA.
We do the right thing when faced with hard choices. Transparency and trust accelerate our collective performance.
Passionate Pursuit of Performance
Our energy is contagious, because we hire for passion, drive & curiosity.
We love what we do, and because we’re laser focused on our mission.
Innovation over Imitation
We seek to innovate as we are not content with the status quo.
We embrace agility and experimentation as an advantage.
Stronger Together
We bring our whole selves to the mission and find value in diverse perspectives.
We champion what’s best for Bazaarvoice before individuals or teams.
As a stronger company we build a stronger community.
Commitment to diversity and inclusion
Bazaarvoice provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all team members and applicants according to their experience, talent, and qualifications for the job without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex (including pregnancy, gender stereotyping, and marital status), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military/veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law in every location in which the company has facilities. Bazaarvoice believes that diversity and an inclusive company culture are key drivers of creativity, innovation and performance. Furthermore, a diverse workforce and the maintenance of an atmosphere that welcomes versatile perspectives will enhance our ability to fulfill our vision of creating the world’s smartest network of consumers, brands, and retailers.