Sr. Software Development Engineer, RISC Tech

Want to join a team that protects and improves the buyer experience of millions Amazon customers and builds earths most customer-centric sellers daily - using innovative technology including machine learning data mining and big data analytics cloud computing services and highly available/scalable distributed systems that support hundreds of millions of transactions across the globe

We have an exciting opportunity with the Regulatory Intelligence Safety and Compliance (RISC) engineering team to architect and build next-generation engineering systems to quickly and accurately identify and mitigate product compliance/safety issues and potential risks to the customer experience.

As a Sr. Software Engineer you will work with your manager and team of highly skilled software data and test engineers to invent design build and manage highly scalable distributed systems that provide availability scalability and latency guarantees. You will work with your internal customers to balance customer requirements with team requirements and help your team and business evolve. Engineers in the team have opportunities to collaborate with teams working on machine learning models and large data sets. You will be using the latest AWS and industry technologies to deliver a one-stop authoritative compliance ecosystem for Amazon keeping our customers safe and products compliant building the software creating the worlds most authoritative data set on everything companies and customers need to know related to the safety and compliance of products and chains.

Each and every person buying selling or handling Amazon products will be your customer.

To succeed in this role you must be passionate about delivering high-quality software designs code and components. You must be creative in solving hard problems and unafraid to think out-of-the-box.

If youd like to make a real-world difference by working hard having fun and making history this is the team for you!

Key Responsibilities:
- Design and develop critical components of world class scalable distributed systems.
- Interface with our internal customers and technical leadership to inform and understand requirements and priorities.
- Take on hard ambiguous problems and articulate solutions that will to serve the broader Amazon.
- Help develop long-term technical strategies in the product space.



- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- 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

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 job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.