Software Development Engineer, AmazonAPI
Are you excited about building massively scalable distributed systems while improving the customer experience by personalizing the customer's journey? Do you like building systems that can process hundreds of billions of requests in a day? We are looking for skillful back-end leader to help us work on massively scalable, distributed systems integrating with nearly all parts of the business.
Through our highly available Tier-1 services we provide the building blocks for creating any shopping experience. As Amazon transitions from one-size-fits-all shopping experiences to experiences that are personalized and localized to our customers, our team is at the forefront of enabling experiences tailor-made for our 300 million plus customers. We power Search, Detail Page, Gateway, Personalization, Cart and Checkout across all platforms including Amazon.com, mobile and voice shopping. You will build systems and services that provide one comprehensive view of our customers, from who they are, why they are here, to what they like. Imagine building such massively scalable distributed systems processing hundreds of billions of requests in a day with next-generation technologies and with a customer obsessed, highly talented, and a fun team.
In our team, you will indulge your love of diving deep into complex technical problems, driving incremental system optimizations and raising the bar for operational excellence and development practices. We will look to you to help lift the skills and expertise of those around you.
If distributed computing, large-scale system design, machine learning, next-gen technologies excites you then you’ll find this role to be engaging, challenging, and full of opportunities to learn and grow. You will own development and operation of the systems that you develop. We are looking passionate SDEs who want to build their career in Amazon Retail. If this sounds interesting to you, talk to us!
- 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
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