Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon

Do you want to revolutionize how millions of Amazonians worldwide receive HR support? Are you passionate about building intelligent, AI-powered solutions that transform employee experiences? Do you want to work on a platform that combines AWS services with generative AI to deliver personalized, efficient HR support at Amazon scale? If so, we invite you to join the Employee Services Technology team within Amazon's People eXperience & Technology (PXT) organization.

About the role

In this role, you will:

• Lead the architectural design and development of critical platform features, ensuring solutions are highly scalable, maintainable, and align with AWS best practices
• Drive technical excellence through mentorship of junior engineers and establishment of coding standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices
• Architect and implement AI-powered solutions leveraging AWS services to enable predictive support capabilities and automated workflow orchestration
• Design and build robust integration patterns between multiple HR systems while ensuring data security and compliance
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into elegant technical solutions
• Lead cross-team technical initiatives and drive consensus on architectural decisions
• Champion operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, and continuous improvement of system reliability
• Partner with SDE-IIIs and Principal Engineers to drive execution of 3-year architecture plans (3YAP) and balance long-term vision with immediate customer impact
• Mentor SDE-IIs on engineering excellence and leadership principles while partnering with SDMs and PMs to deliver team-level goals

Our mission is to transform how HR support works at Amazon by:

• Delivering swift, accurate, and personalized support through an AI-enhanced unified platform
• Building intelligent systems that anticipate employee needs and proactively surface solutions
• Creating seamless experiences that connect service teams across Amazon's HR support ecosystem
• Developing scalable solutions that optimize workforce management and operational efficiency

A day in the life

• Write maintainable, well-structured, and testable code to advance your in-flight project and submit a code review to the team
• Design a system to solve an Amazon-scale problem and present a design document to build consensus on your recommended approach
• Attend a team-level operations review meeting to understand system health and identify actions to maintain system availability
• Meet with customers to understand their problems, brainstorm solutions, and discuss with management to affect team priorities
• Review a teammate's code change and raise the bar on team code quality by providing insightful comments
• Research new technologies that could simplify your team's system and share findings with the team
• Root cause and resolve trouble tickets filed by customers of your system
• Attend a one-on-one meeting with your manager to receive support on your work and discuss career development

About the team

We are part of Amazon's People eXperience & Technology (PXT) organization, focused on building and evolving the HR Service Desk—a transformative platform that revolutionizes how HR support is delivered to Amazonians worldwide. Our team is at the forefront of developing solutions that combine AI-powered employee relationship management with streamlined workflows. Our mission is to empower People Services teams to provide swift, accurate, and personalized support while reducing manual effort and improving operational efficiency. We're currently engaged in exciting initiatives including implementing Gen AI solutions and building innovative features to enhance the employee support experience.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Pay

• USA, CA, Santa Clara: $193,300.00 - $261,500.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Bellevue: $168,100.00 - $227,400.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, with optional supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off and parental leave

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.