Senior SDE, AWS Invoicing

AWS has the most services and more features within those services than any other cloud providerfrom infrastructure technologies like compute storage and databasesto emerging technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence data lakes and analytics and Internet of Things. AWS Platform is the glue that holds the AWS ecosystem together. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on cryptography console builder & developer tools and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.

The AWS Commerce Platform provides the back and front-end services that enable AWS customers to purchase AWS services and understand and manage their infrastructure costs. Our teams tackle some of the hardest scalability performance and distributed computing challenges in the world. We process trillions of events per month using stream processing techniques (Kinesis) process billions of line items via map reduce (EMR) and manage artifacts through the latest in database technologies (DynamoDB and Aurora). We process big data and provide tools for customers to interactively understand their bills. We also provide the analytics that let customers manage billions of dollars of IT usage and spending. Because we sit at the nexus of all AWS services and interact directly with end-customers we also work closely across all AWS teams to ensure that we offer a great customer experience.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here which is why we arent focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead were happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced lifeboth in and outside of work.

We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location job family job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two because two is better than addition to formal mentors we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.

Our team is diverse! We drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment. We are intentional about attracting developing and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Team members are active in Amazons 10 affinity groups sometimes known as employee resource groups which bring employees together across businesses and locations around the world. These range from groups such as the Black Employee Network Latinos at Amazon Indigenous at Amazon Families at Amazon Amazon Women and Engineering LGBTQ Warriors at Amazon (Military) Amazon People With Disabilities and more.

Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Software Development Engineer you will:
- Own design development test deployment and operation of highly available secure systems that handle confidential billing data at scale.
- Contribute directly to our growth by hiring smart and motivated engineers that can deliver swiftly and predictably adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver what our customers need.
- Be responsible for ensuring sanity of architecture operational excellence and quality delivering results on time.
- Work closely with other teams across AWS and Amazon to deliver platform features that require cross-team leadership.
- Obsess over protecting customer information maintaining single-digit millisecond latencies and simplifying enterprise scale commerce complexity.
- Mentor other engineers and interns on the team.
- Regularly dive into architecture code test plans project plans deployments and operations to drive excellence throughout our organization.


- 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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at VA Arlington - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually