Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Invoicing

Amazon • Seattle, WA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior SDE to own and drive the design, implementation, and operational excellence of distributed systems that power AWS's invoicing platform. You'll work on high-scale, high-availability services that handle invoice generation, tax calculation integration, e-invoicing compliance, and statement delivery. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll influence architecture decisions, raise the engineering bar, and mentor engineers across the team.

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

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems that process invoices for AWS's global customer base
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex features — from requirements through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations
• Drive technical strategy and architecture for your area, making trade-offs that balance business needs with long-term maintainability
• Lead operational excellence efforts including on-call, runbook development, alarming, and incident response
• Mentor and grow junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and day-to-day collaboration
• Partner with product managers, tax specialists, and cross-functional teams to translate complex regulatory requirements into reliable software solutions
• Identify and eliminate technical debt, improve system reliability, and reduce operational burden
• Contribute to org-wide engineering standards, best practices, and tooling

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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