Software Development Engineer III, Employee Onboarding and Administration, Personal Information Domain/Identity Domain

Amazon is hiring thousands of workers every week across 60 countries. The Work Authorization team ensures that all employees hired (into all lines of business globally) are legally authorized to work and remain authorized to work throughout their employment. We are building a system to streamline the work authorization determination process by eliminating manual interventions (where legally permissible) without compromising compliance. This solution will include building dedicated web applications to satisfy legal requirements specific to each country or region
As a Software Developer you will have direct influence on this greenfield project by designing and implementing highly scalable solutions and applying technology to optimize business problems.
As a Software Development Engineer you will take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous HR operational and business problems. You will own and heavily influence the architecture and design and will write a significant portion of the critical-path code. You will influence the teams technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to priorities and approach. You contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design architecture development documentation testing and operations. You are empowered to own all aspects of solutions end-to-end through full stack software development. Successful candidates are strong leaders who can prioritize well communicate clearly and have a consistent track record of delivering large scale solutions.

Key job responsibilities
The Personal Information Domain (PID) Platform and Identity Management Services (IDMS) team is seeking a Software Development Engineer III with a passion for building full-stack enterprise solutions using cloud technologies. The team owns both customer-facing experiences and back-end services to enable Personal Information management across Amazon globally and facilitation of key processes required to setup and manage profiles and identities during pre-boarding in addition to enabling the use of computing services and other resources. From pre-boarding to alumni all Amazonians globally will interact with the products our team builds and maintains.

As a SDE III on the team you will own highly impactful services responsible for design build and maintenance of data platform and identity services. You will own and enhance duplicate detection login and identity creation profile management and automation of several critical services for successful pre-boarding. A successful SDE III will have a broad array of experiences exceptional design skills excellent technical judgement and problem solving ability good communication skills and a leading technical contributor. The software you write will impact millions of Amazonians globally and will require a breadth of technical development knowledge. Daily work will involve interacting with engineers product managers SDMs and stakeholders.


A day in the life
On a daily basis we are designing and implementing new features enhancements and problem solving complex issues that often require cross-team collaboration and a holistic business process understanding. We are the customer too! Our team is building products that we also use and benefit from. In daily conversations with Product Managers we advocate for and invent solutions to improve the customer experience. What we do affects everyone at Amazon. We move fast! Our team focuses on prioritization and fast decision making to deliver for the customer without sacrificing good engineering practices.

About the team
We are seeking experienced engineers with strong ownership. You will own a large impactful technical domain and lead projects that impact new joiner Amazonians around the globe. Amazon business success depends on your ability to innovate and enable onboarding speed accuracy and success. If youre thrilled by the idea of ownership passionate about creating new features and services from scratch and comfortable with the pace of shipping software in incremental cycles measured in weeks we would love to connect with you.

- 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
- Experience leading and influencing your team or organization

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