System Development Engineer, GRAISE Checkout Engineering

Amazon • Austin, TX

22h

About The Position

Amazon is seeking a Systems Development Engineer with strong design and
development skills to join our Checkout Engineering team in Austin, TX. This
role will focus on creating advanced tooling to support our Point of Sale (POS)
and Payments systems using Amazon development processes.

The ideal candidate will drive both the strategic vision and technical
implementation of robust, scalable solutions. You will influence architectural
decisions, design and implement implementation strategies, and own engineering
best practices. A portion of your work will involve developing custom tools and
frameworks to enhance the efficiency, reliability, and maintainability of our
payment and POS systems.

Requirements

• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
• Experience with Point of Sale, Payments, or Retail technologies

Nice To Haves

• Experience with distributed systems at scale
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 3+ years in Point of Sale, Payments, or Retail technology

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design discussions that impact payment and POS systems.
• Build custom tools and frameworks to support payment and POS systems.
• Implement critical components of payment and POS systems.
• Create design specifications for complex integration between Checkout systems, internal boundary systems, and vendor systems.
• Build tools for automated monitoring solutions.
• Build automated alerting systems based on log analysis, with the ability to identify both present and absent critical data elements.
• Collaborate with SDE teams to implement monitoring solutions for new features and services.
• Document tool implementations and framework designs to enable team adoption and maintenance.
• Troubleshoot issues and collaborate with vendors and cross-functional teams.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed