If you've ever wanted to work on problems where the answer doesn't exist yet and build it, this is that opportunity.
Who You Are
You have strong technical design instincts and can architect systems that work reliably at extreme scale
You're comfortable leading across team boundaries — aligning with business owners, senior developers, and principals
You're energized by ambiguity and greenfield work, not intimidated by it
You ship, you learn, you iterate
Why This Team, Why Now
Direct impact on hundreds of millions of customers and sellers worldwide, your work shows up in the shopping experience, every day
Ground floor of a new technology stack with a clear scaling trajectory
Cutting-edge problem space: LLMs, distributed systems, big data, applied to real products at real scale
A team that's fast-moving, collaborative, and genuinely fun to work with
Key job responsibilities
As a software development engineer on this team, you will play a pivotal role in the following:
Work with the team to help drive business decisions
Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to drive services optimizations, cost, and security.
Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
Write high quality distributed system software
Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
