Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Commerce Platform

$151,300 - $261,500/Yr

Amazon - Federal Way, WA

Full-time - Senior

Federal Way, WA

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in the AWS Commerce Platform, you will tackle complex engineering challenges in distributed systems at a large scale. This role involves collaborating with motivated teams, guiding the engineering roadmap, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, secure systems that manage confidential billing data. You will also play a key role in mentoring other engineers and contributing to the growth of the team.

Responsibilities

• Own design, development, test, deployment and operation of highly available, secure systems that handle confidential billing data at scale.
• Contribute directly to our growth by hiring smart and motivated engineers that can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver what our customers need.
• Be responsible for ensuring sanity of architecture, operational excellence and quality, delivering results on time.
• Work closely with other teams across AWS and Amazon to deliver platform features that require cross-team leadership.
• Obsess over protecting customer information, maintaining single-digit millisecond latencies, and simplifying enterprise scale commerce complexity.
• Mentor other engineers and interns on the team.
• Regularly dive into architecture, code, test plans, project plans, deployments and operations to drive excellence throughout our organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Nice-to-haves

• 5+ 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

Benefits

• Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation package
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits