Software Development Engineer, Amazon Central Sourcing

About the role

This role is for fungible software development engineers in the Amazon Ads, LEO, Devices, and Entertainment Teams. 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.

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.

Company

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.