Sr Software Dev Engineer, Region Flexibility Engineering (RFE) - Team Axon/HawkEye

The Region Flexibility Engineering (RFE) team builds and leverages foundational infrastructure capabilities tools and datasets needed to support the rapid global expansion of Amazons SOA infrastructure. This role is for SDE III in Axon & HawkEye team. Our team focuses on robust and scalable architecture patterns and engineering best practices driving adoption of everevolving and emerging AWS technologies. Axon & HawkEye is looking for a passionate resultsoriented inventive Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE) to refine and deliver our grand vision design and implement technical solutions for regional placement automation crossregion libraries and tooling useful for teams across Amazon.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE) you will solve some of the most intriguing problems in software architecture while designing and building highly scalable services and solutions from the ground up. Our project spans across all of Amazon Stores Digital and Others (SDO) Businesses. We work closely with AWS teams to advise them on SDO requirements to set up required infrastructure. You will work closely with and learn from a large Principal Engineering community. As innovators who embrace new technology you will be empowered to choose the right highly scalable and available technology to solve complex problems and will directly influence product design.

The Axon & HawkEyes mission is to enable service owners operators and central program teams with traffic telemetry insights and intuitive user experiences to relentlessly improve availability performance and scaling posture of Amazons distributed services ecosystem.

If you enjoy designing and building highly distributed systems that can scale and solving challenging problems come join us! Given the size and impact of RFEs customer base we understand the importance of making our development tools just work. We make it easy to build high quality reliable systems build and maintain Amazon Customer trust that support Amazons evolving architectural needs. Come help us create and evolve the abstractions that make developing software at Amazon even more robust and flexible!

Key job responsibilities
* Design and implement features within the Axon & HawkEye infrastructure.
* Participate in the oncall & operational activities of the team.
* The candidate will be responsible for technical mentoring helping to develop the SDEs in the team as well as contributing to guide and onboard new team members.

The key deliverables are the defined Milestones of RFE Axon & HawkEye. Our team has a clear definition of the project success (in terms of adoption metrics etc.)




6 years of noninternship professional software development experience
7 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
Strong proficiency in Java and good understanding of Concurrency.
Strong understanding of JVM internals garbage collection class loading and memory management.
Experience with inmemory distributed storage systems
Experience with monitoring and tracing tools such as datadog new relic app dynamics etc...
Excellent system design skills strong coding skills strong sense of ownership.
Awareness of the latest trends and technologies in big data and observability.
Experience with Time Series or Graph DB.
Great communication skills.

6 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
Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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.