Software Development Engineer, Amazon Core Shopping, Buy for Me

About the role

At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. Our Software Development Engineers (SDEs) use advanced technology to solve complex problems and get to see the impact of their work first-hand. The challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.

As a part of Core Shopping, our team is focused on building novel ways for customers to find and discover new products. If you love building new experiences from scratch with high impact for customers, this is the team for you.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Deliver customer value in an iterative fashion while working towards longer term systems goals.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

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
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

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

Base salary range: $165,200 – $223,600 USD annually (Santa Clara, CA). The Amazon package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Employer: Amazon.com Services LLC | Job ID: A10565791