Software Development Engineer, Privacy

Amazon • Austin, TX

16h • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon's Privacy team is looking for builders that want to create unique solutions that help us retain our customer’s trust. Our partners across Amazon’s Consumer and Digital business units to build, monitor, and protect a secure environment for the Amazon business. As a software development engineer you will apply the appropriate technologies and best practices to autonomously solve difficult problems. You will work with customers, stakeholders, and peers to refine your ideas into pragmatic solutions with high operational excellence. You will contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.

The ideal candidate is passionate about new opportunities and has a demonstrated track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast. The successful candidate’s code and approach to work will be exemplary, delivering solutions that are inventive, secure, easily maintainable, appropriately scalable, and extensible. You will be part of an autonomous, cross-functional team designing, building and operating strategic feature sets. technical program managers, senior and principal engineers, to build privacy solutions that enhance and innovate to improve customer experience and measure customer behavior.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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
• GenAI Fluency during design, coding and testing

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and operating key system products and services using Native AI
• Ensuring designs align with the organizational and product architectures
• Maintaining and promoting a high operational excellence bar
• Operating in an agile environment to deliver high quality projects on fast paced schedules
• Collaborating with project teams across various themes like core platform development, software compliance, and financial optimization.
• Engaging in technical discussions and brainstorming on AI adoption.
• Active participation in our development sprints, reviewing code, and ensuring the implementation of best practices.
• Interacting with stakeholders, understanding their needs, and translating them into technical solutions.
• Mentoring team members (SDE1), providing guidance, and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Regularly reviewing and optimizing existing systems and processes for better efficiency and performance.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level