Software Development Engineer, Tax and Account Compliance Tech

We are the guardians of the Amazon galaxy. The Account Compliance team strives to ensure that Amazon remains compliant and the cost of being compliant is never the reason where the business or our sellers cannot scale. Our diverse team innovates on behalf of their customers to build a trusted marketplace through best-in-class compliance products. With hundreds of millions of customers around the world depending on our products & services our systems form the tip of the spear against bad actors. These actors might abuse Amazon products and undermine customer faith so our success comes from identifying & removing them while delivering best-in-class customer experiences for the good actors and strategic customers. Were creating the most trusted store on earth enabling Amazon to innovate at scale and supporting our customers to launch & grow their business faster than anywhere else in the world.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer in the account compliance team you will design and build software that 1) is extensible to different use cases products and geographies with almost zero incremental tech effort 2) can trigger verifications that are necessary under applicable policies 3) can store verification decisions for re-use to reduce duplicative checks; and (5) is vendible to any authorized user via API. The software is smarter than the smartest bad actors in the world to protect the store from illegal activities at scale. Amazons scale means that youll be designing and developing custom distributed systems more advanced than those used in standard industry practices. These data-centric systems need to detect patterns across Amazons huge customer population as they happen and be adaptive so that they can detect new modus operandi as they develop. Lastly they need to be highly available low latency high quality systems. If this sounds interesting to you then apply and find out more!

- 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

- 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

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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