Sr Software Engineer

Would you like to work on one of the worlds largest transactional distributed systems How about working with customers and peers from the entire range of Amazons business on cool new features Whether youre passionate about building highly scalable and reliable systems or a software developer who likes to solve business problems Amazon Tax Platform Services is the place for you. We are responsible for the tax platform providing the core services that calculate taxes (sales tax and VAT) for all Amazon sales physical and digital globally and generate tax invoices for the same. We thrive on providing the correct tax amounts to the customer at order time and make sure audit records are stored safely to meet tax law requirements around the globe and generate tax compliant invoices for our customers. Our challenges include staying on top of the complex and ever-changing global tax rates and laws as well as computing calculations correctly and quickly thousands of times a second and each one needs to be right. We are looking for software engineers who thrive on complex problems and relish the challenge of operating complex and mission critical systems under extreme loads. Our systems manage hundreds of millions of records and respond to millions of service requests per minute. Do you think you are up to the challenge Or would you like to learn more and stretch your skills and career The successful candidate is expected to contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle including design development documentation testing and operations. They must possess good verbal and written communication skills be self-driven and deliver high quality results in a fast paced environment. They need to enjoy working closely with their peers in a group of very smart and talented engineers. Were looking for people who are smart and can get things done though the following skill sets provide a good foundation for a quick ramp up to being productive in our Java Linux and Oracle-based environment. As a software development engineer on this team you will play a pivotal role in the following:

Work with the team to help drive business decisions

Design implement test deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to drive services optimizations cost and security.

Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables

Write high quality distributed system software

Work in an agile environment where you are always working on the most important stuff.



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

- 5 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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