Software Dev Engineer II, Mesa
Amazon · Posted Oct 19
E-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, and digital streaming services
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About the role
The Amazon Books publishing technology team builds and deploys the systems that take a title from submission by an author or publisher through Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) to a live, discoverable listing across more than 15 global marketplaces. The team focuses on catalog orchestration, publishing workflows, and reporting, serving authors, publishers, and readers. This SDE role owns the design, architecture, and implementation of high-volume, mission-critical software, maintaining a high bar for quality, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
What you will do
- If you are looking to work with a team of engineers that relentlessly innovate and push the envelope keeping customers at the center of its universe, continually raising the bar and delivering results with velocity, then this is the space and place to be in.
- Specifically, within the team the SDE is responsible for ensuring the team’s software maintains a high bar with respect to quality, security, architecture, scalability and operational excellence.
- They are able to identify the root cause of issues including areas where it limits innovation and prevents accelerated delivery of projects, while navigating several systems and components they may or may not own.
- Ultimately, they display strong technical acumen and ownership.
- We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented software engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications that customers love.
- You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of products used every day, by people you know.
- This is a high visibility team where you will get a chance to make a positive impact on customer experience.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational technology conglomerate focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Recognized as one of the world's most valuable brands, it operates the largest internet retail marketplace globally alongside its prominent cloud platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Industry
- E-Commerce
- Company size
- 1576000+ employees
- Founded
- 1994-07-05
- Location
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $8M raised
- 2013-03-22Post Ipo Debt$200M
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Founder and Executive Chair
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Matt Garman
CEO, Amazon Web Services
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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