Sr. Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Stores - Technology Teams

Amazon Stores - Technology Teams Overview

Amazons technology teams in Latin America are driving innovation across various domains. Heres an integrated look at three key teams:

INTech (International Technology)
- Develops highly available Tier-1 services for over 300 million customers
- Focuses on expanding services efficiently in Latin America particularly Mexico
- Works with massively scalable distributed systems processing hundreds of billions of requests daily
- Responsible for design development testing and deployment of services
- Emphasizes operational excellence and innovative problem-solving
- Seeks candidates with experience in real-time scalable systems and strong technical abilities

Payments Team
- Drives architecture and technology choices for world-class developer experiences
- Utilizes metrics to rapidly iterate on software features
- Focuses on solving complex problems with elegant practical code
- Emphasizes quality consistency maintainability efficiency and security
- Responsible for designing developing and deploying medium to large-sized projects
- Defines and implements engineering best practices
- Champions user needs insisting on high standards and engaging features

Global Realty Technologies
- Leads and mentors software engineers
- Develops solutions leveraging workflow automation geospatial intelligence mapping and AI
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams to meet client needs
- Participates in software architecture and design reviews
- Maintains and enhances existing applications
- Writes clean efficient and well-documented code
- Engages in code reviews and provides constructive feedback
- Stays current with emerging technologies and industry trends

Common Threads Across Teams:
- Focus on scalable high-performance systems
- Emphasis on innovative problem-solving
- Need for strong technical skills and ability to work in fast-paced environments
- Commitment to best practices in software development
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and large-scale projects

These teams offer exciting opportunities for software engineers who want to work on transformative technologies while solving real-world challenges in e-commerce payments and real estate operations across Latin America and globally.

Key job responsibilities
As an SDE II across our technology teams you will:
- Design develop test and deploy highly available Tier-1 services supporting 300M customers through scalable distributed systems
- Drive architectural decisions and implement solutions for complex technical challenges ensuring quality maintainability security and operational excellence
- Write clean efficient and well-documented code while participating in code reviews and providing constructive feedback
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions leveraging workflow automation AI and other emerging technologies
- Lead technical initiatives and mentor other engineers while championing engineering best practices
- Build and maintain scalable systems processing hundreds of billions of requests daily
- Utilize metrics and data-driven approaches to iterate on features and improve customer experience
- Participate in architecture and design reviews to ensure high-quality sustainable solutions
- Stay current with emerging technologies and contribute to technical innovation within the team
- Work across teams to expand services efficiently in Latin America particularly focusing on Mexico market needs
- Ensure solutions meet high standards for performance reliability and user experience
- Champion operational excellence through monitoring alerting and continuous improvement of systems

Required Technical Skills:
- Proven experience with distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
- Strong coding abilities in one or more programming languages (Java Python C)
- Experience with cloud technologies and microservices architecture
- Understanding of data structures algorithms and system design principles
- Knowledge of software development best practices and design patterns

A day in the life
The exact schedule can vary based on your specific team and current projects but theres flexibility as an engineer at Amazon.

About the team
Inclusive team culture
At Amazon we embrace our differences and we are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust

Mentorship& Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work Life Balance
We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 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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