Sr Software Development Engineer AWS Commerce Platform

As a senior software engineer in AWS Commerce Platform you will work on the hardest engineering problems in distributed systems at a massive scale and on multiple dimensions. You will exercise your intellectual curiosity work with motivated teams of sharp individuals partner with other senior and principal engineers and provide guidance in defining your teams engineering roadmap.

AWS Commerce Platform provides the infrastructure and services that enable AWS teams to sell their services to AWS customers as well as help AWS customers understand and manage their infrastructure costs. AWS Commerce Platform computes the bills for AWS customers based on their usage invoices them and collects payments.

Our team in AWS Billing (part of AWS Commerce Platform) owns data services that centralizes storage and data management of key billing datasets. We own one of the largest datastores at Amazon. We provide Git semantics like history auditability and branching for managing versioned datasets at scale. Today we support clients with datasets that span across millions of repositories comprising billions of files and petabytes of data and handle upward of 1 million transactions per second. We enable myriad use cases in AWS that require lowlatency high throughput and are least errortolerant workflows.
We provide a service to persist temporal timeinterval based billing datasets such as usage pricing discounts etc. This solution solves data requirements across Commerce Platform (e.g. backdating postdating schema management crosssystem crossregion replication).


Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Software Development Engineer you will:
Own design development test deployment and operation of highly available secure systems that handle confidential billing data at scale.
Contribute directly to our growth by hiring smart and motivated engineers that can deliver swiftly and predictably adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver what our customers need.
Be responsible for ensuring sanity of architecture operational excellence and quality delivering results on time.
Work closely with other teams across AWS and Amazon to deliver platform features that require crossteam leadership.
Obsess over protecting customer information maintaining singledigit millisecond latencies and simplifying enterprise scale commerce complexity.
Mentor other engineers and interns on the team.
Regularly dive into architecture code test plans project plans deployments and operations to drive excellence throughout our organization.

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5 years of noninternship 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/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.