Software Development Engineer II, Shipping Services

Are you an innovative and accomplished professional seeking for a role with a significant impact and growth Amazon is looking for a dynamic Software Development Engineer to join our Core Services team under Worldwide Customer purchase Journey.

The Shipping and Region Authority (SARA) organization innovates on foundational products that shape the customer shopping journey beginning from the gateway page of their visit through search and discovery experiences. SARAs products also help drive checkout and fulfillment customer experiences. Through a complex orchestration of its four domains (Shipping Regions Locations Restrictions) SARA influences and frames the shopping CX. Our systems are architected for scale and consistency offering configurable flexible and global solutions (standardized globally but customized for local regulations). We integrate with multiple cross technology and functional services to identify customer locations identify the shipping options and apply sales and shipping restrictions.

In this role you will scope complex projects and deliver simple elegant solutions by collecting product and business requirements driving the development schedule from design to release making appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-market and clearly communicating goals roles responsibilities and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional teams. You will interact with a broad cross-section of the Amazon organization clarify ambiguous issues and negotiate effective technical solutions between development and business teams. You will anticipate bottlenecks and escalate issues when required to ensure on-time delivery. This role requires a seasoned individual with excellent experience as a Software Development Engineer for distributed SOA software systems and the ability to guide high-level technical design while considering potential future areas of fraud our platform might encounter.


Key job responsibilities
Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonian to conceive design and bring innovative products and services to market.
Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
Build distributed storage index and query systems that are scalable fault-tolerant low cost and easy to manage/use.
Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

- 4 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
- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- Experience debugging profiling and implementing best software engineering practices in large-scale systems

- 4 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience

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