Software Development Engineer, Amazon People Insights Experience

Amazon • Seattle, WA

19h

About The Position

Are you driven by the excitement of unraveling intricate data puzzles? Does your DNA resonate with collaborative problem-solving? Do you thrive on witnessing the ripple effects of your contributions in the larger scheme of things? If you've nodded along to any of these questions, welcome to Amazon PeopleInsights eXperience (APIX) team! We're not just a team; we're a dynamic cohort of engineers dedicated to leveraging innovations for Amazon's PXT tools and software. Together, we confront tangible challenges head-on, poised to revolutionize customer experiences in unforeseen ways. This is a hands-on position where you will design and build extremely scalable components and features for Amazon's PXT reporting platform, while helping formulate strategy and direction for data processing across the organization. You will mentor junior engineers and collaborate with internal customers, and senior leadership to help them derive maximum value from people analytics. We're looking for a top software developer with excellent programming skills, deep understanding of data processing and parallelization, and a proven track record of delivery. You should also excel at leadership and customer obsession while having a genuine passion for massive-scale computing that powers people decisions at Amazon. In this role, you'll be instrumental in building the infrastructure that helps Amazon make informed decisions through people analytics A day in the life As an SDE on the team, you will be responsible for creating scalable solutions to facilitate dataset onboarding, access control, metadata management, data preprocessing/modeling workflows. You will help define and implement the end-to-end governance model to ensure secure access to PXT data, adherence to privacy regulations, and centralized auditing. About the team Our mission is to harness the power of people data to empower PXT and people leaders to make decisions that help Amazon become the Earth’s Best Employer.

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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 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

Responsibilities

• Staying current with the constantly evolving data processing, data lake, and people analytics technology landscape
• Translating complex functional and technical requirements from stakeholders into detailed architecture and design solutions
• Delivering high-quality PXT reporting solutions and features on schedule to support critical business decisions
• Maintaining technical expertise to keep pace with rapidly changing technology and collaborating with the team to evaluate and integrate new technologies that enhance our people data capabilities
• Raise the bar on code quality, including security, readability, consistency, maintainability.

Benefits

• Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• 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 .

What This Job Offers

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