Software Development Engineer, Amazon Central Sourcing

Some Things About Us

• Motivated, collaborative team: Join a team of passionate engineers who support each other, share knowledge freely, and celebrate wins together.
• Greenfield opportunity: We're building from the ground up, giving you the chance to shape architecture, tooling, and culture from day one.
• World-changing impact: Your work will directly shape how hundreds of millions of customers interact every day.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available, scalable cloud services in Java.
• Build and operate Tier-1 services at massive scale.
• Solve novel and complex distributed systems challenges — from low-latency communication to fault-tolerant architectures.
• Leverage generative AI extensively in your day-to-day development workflow to accelerate delivery and improve code quality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams across Amazon to define technical direction and deliver customer-facing features.
• Contribute to a culture of operational excellence, including on-call support, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Basic Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Pay

• USA, CA, Sunnyvale: $165,200.00 - $223,600.00 USD annually
• USA, MA, North Reading: $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually
• USA, NY, New York City: $158,100.00 - $213,800.00 USD annually
• USA, TX, Austin: $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle: $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually

Benefits

Amazon 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.

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