Software Development Engineer, Amazon Selling Partners

Amazon Selling Partner Services team drives the Selling On Amazon business and develops solutions that enable millions of sellers around the world to sell on Amazons Marketplaces. More than half of shipments for Amazon customers are generated from this business. The team is focused on building a technology platform that will support the explosive business growth in existing markets streamline the business for Amazon and the Selling partners and launch business in new markets and establish a fair marketplace.

Our team is seeking engineers with broad technical skills to help us optimize how we synthesize massive amounts of data and complex business rules into mission critical financial information. As a member of this team you will employ object oriented techniques in Java DynamoDB Postgres and ElasticSearch skills to help us support Amazons next generation of selling partner services. Along the way youll gain and leverage a unique understanding of how works; from the numerous software systems that comprise the websites back-end to the details of our business model and the relationships were establishing with an ever-growing network of selling partners who depend on to run their businesses.

The ideal candidate will draw upon exemplary analytical critical thinking and problem solving skills and a passion for maintaining highly reliable distributed systems which operate 24/7/365. Successful members of this team collaborate effectively with internal end-users cross-functional software development teams and technical support/sustaining engineering teams to solve problems and deliver successfully against high operational standards of system availability and reliability. We look for engineers who are excellent communicators self-motivated flexible hardworking and who like to have fun!

Key job responsibilities
- You work with the team to design build and operate systems that are secure available and performant.
- You solve difficult problems applying appropriate technologies and architectural patterns.
- You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them (and when it is not). Your solutions are pragmatic navigating constraints.
- You create maintainable software without over-engineering. You make appropriate trade-offs re-use where possible and are judicious about introducing dependencies.
- You focus on operational excellence understanding how decisions impact operational costs and take on projects that make software easier to maintain.

A day in the life
- Designing and driving technical decisions that balance competing priorities and constraints
- Implementing changes at a high quality achieving stringent requirements for availability security and performance
- Creating and implementing automation that improve system reliability and operational efficiency
- Working closely with dependent teams to enhance system capabilities and resolve technical challenges
- Driving investigations to root cause anomalies and delivering robust solutions

About the team
The Amazon Selling Partner Services team drives the Selling On Amazon business developing solutions that enable millions of sellers worldwide to succeed on Amazons marketplaces. With more than half of customer shipments generated from this business our team focuses on building a technology platform supporting explosive growth in existing markets while streamlining operations for Amazon and selling partners.

Were seeking engineers with broad technical skills to help optimize how we synthesize massive amounts of data and complex business rules into mission-critical financial information. Youll work with Java DynamoDB PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch while gaining unique understanding of Amazons systems business model and relationships with our ever-growing network of selling partners. Our collaborative environment values excellent communication self-motivation and engineers who solve problems while having fun building the future of e-commerce.

- 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
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Demonstrated experience leveraging generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency and productivity with the ability to craft effective prompts and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs in a professional setting
- Experience identifying opportunities to integrate AI solutions into products and services to drive business value

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also 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. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually