Curious as to if there are customer facing engineering roles at either Google or Amazon - similar to Commercial Software Engineering at Microsoft or FDSE at Palantir?
Yes there is. Cloud has many
AWS SAs and professional services
+1 Solution Architects directly interact with the customer. Salary isnβt great though.
Internal customers count?
We do interact/listen to customer calls with customer service agents to know their pain points and how we can resolve them through code :-)
At Amazon: No, not really. Some PMs may interact with customers. Customer service may. Thatβs about it.