Software Development Engineer Amazon Regulatory and Trade Services ARTS

ARTS Tech is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer interested in disrupting the way products are bought sold and distributed on a global scale. The right candidate will have handson involvement in building new tools services and distribution structures across Amazons growing footprint. The products and capabilities enabled by this role will deliver unprecedented selection and prices across Amazons 100MM customers while innovating beyond established supply chain norms. The right candidate will thrive in a fastpaced ambiguous environment with interactions across a wide variety of ecommerce topics and will demonstrate competence in multiple fields and skill sets.

At Amazon we are working to be the most customercentric company on earth and enable products that meet our customers needs and demands while providing a safe experience throughout. To reach there we need exceptionally talented bright dynamic and dedicated individuals. Are you excited to help Amazon grow product selection across the globe

Are you interested in making cross border movement of products seamless for our customers and Amazon Are you excited to develop solutions for regulatory agencies globally Are you ready to take on the challenges and excitement of working on greenfield projects If so ARTS team is working to enable some of the complex and challenging crossborder solutions to customers globally. This role will report ARTS Tech (Global Trade Services GTS) technology team. This team owns tech solutions that span all of Amazons businesses worldwide. In this role you will gain the opportunity to interact and work with emerging businesses at Amazon from inception through growth phases. You will also gain strategic insights into evolving and mature compliance businesses. This team and role will provide a great opportunity to build your career at Amazon in the Software Development stream.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers truly enjoy mentoring more junior engineers and engineers from nontraditional backgrounds through oneonone mentoring and thorough but kind code reviews. We care about your career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks based on what will help each team member develop into a betterrounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

As a Software Development Engineer on the team you will take ownership over the software design documentation development engineering approach delivery and support of systems built natively in AWS. In this role you will collaborate with leaders work backward from customers identify problems propose innovative solutions relentlessly raise standards and have a huge impact by disrupting the way products are bought sold and distributed on Amazon on a global scale. The right candidate will have handson involvement in building new tools services and distribution structures across Amazons growing footprint. The products and capabilities enabled by this role will deliver unprecedented selection for our global customers while complying with Global Trade and Product Compliance requirements. The right candidate will thrive in a fastpaced ambiguous environment with interactions across a wide variety of ecommerce topics and will demonstrate competence in multiple fields and skill sets.



Key job responsibilities
Define design and implement multitier distributed software applications.
Understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver highperforming applications.
Estimate engineering effort plan implementation and rollout system changes that meet requirements for functionality performance scalability reliability and adherence to development goals and principles.
Must be able to independently design code and test major features as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes.
Must be able to effectively collaborate in a fast paced environment with multiple teams in a large organization (software development QA Project/Release Management Build and Release etc..
Provide oncall production support for applications.

A day in the life


This is the greenfield opportunity with a multiyear roadmap to build a new experience for our Selling partners. There are lots of opportunities to disrupt and innovate in this area.

Help define the system architecture own and implement specific components and help shape the overall experience.
Collaborate closely with Business stakeholders UX designers and other SDE team members to help define the scope of the product.
As an early team member you will be responsible for technical problem solving creatively meeting product objectives and developing best practices.
You will need to demonstrate crossfunctional resource interaction to accomplish your goals.
Write highquality efficient testable code in Java and other objectoriented languages.
Design Amazon scale tools to facilitate internal business.
Build highly available secure and Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry.
Mentor other developers and participate in Hiring and developing the best talent.
Find out what it takes to engineer systems for the Amazon Scale.
Design and build highly available durable and flexible systems to enable Cross Border Compliance at scale.
Own and operate the systems that you build based on realtime customer data and demanding servicelevel agreements.
Contribute to planning design implementation testing operations and process improvement as a member of a Scrum team.

Benefits Summary: Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location the number of regularly scheduled hours you work length of employment and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular fulltime employees include:
1. Medical Dental and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly wed still love to hear from you! At Amazon we value people with unique backgrounds experiences and skillsets. If youre passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale please apply!

About the team
The mission of Amazon Regulatory and Trade Services (ARTS) Tech is to facilitate the secure lawful and efficient transportation of products software and technology (e.g. deemed exports) across international borders. This involves tasks such as assigning trade and import classifications providing estimated duties and import costs determining export/import restrictions and ensuring product safety and compliance with regulations. ARTS Tech is responsible for endtoend maintenance and development across a broad and complex suite of solutions and services that cater to the global trade and direct import product compliance space with GTS being its core business. ARTS customers include internal Amazon Consumer businesses (e.g. direct imports core exports global store private brands) noninventory (e.g. Prime Air Devices Robotics OTS and Physical Stores Tech) as well as external customers such as seller partners vendors customs brokers carriers and freight forwarders.

Inclusive Team Culture
Our team is intentional about attracting developing and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Yes we do get to build a really cool service but we also think a big reason for that is the inclusive and welcoming culture we try to cultivate every day. Were looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic empathetic curious motivated reliable and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers; someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture weve been building.

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Bachelors degree or equivalent

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Masters degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.