Sr. SDE, Digital Acceleration

Are you excited about building distributed systems with really challenging mix of requirements on availability latency and consistency Are you someone who enjoys the challenge of figuring out scalable and reusable technical solutions in the context of business problems with ever-growing complexity If the answers are yes our team might be the place for you.

We are seeking a talented Senior Software Development Engineer to join our team and take on a pivotal role focused on crafting and sustaining digital commerce foundation developing systems or frameworks for reliability engineering and enhancing operational processes.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer you will be instrumental in driving transformative change within our organizations digital commerce landscape. Youll have the opportunity to leverage your expertise in software development and automation to revolutionize our operational processes enhance system reliability and pave the way for continuous improvement. Your role will be central to conceptualizing designing and implementing innovative automation solutions that streamline manual tasks eliminate inefficiencies and empower our teams to focus on strategic initiatives.

Youll go beyond software development to include reliability engineering where youll design robust frameworks to fortify system resilience. By preemptively tackling potential failures youll keep our critical infrastructure stable performant and scalable even amid evolving business needs. As a crucial part of our engineering team youll drive innovation collaboration and continuous improvement. Mentor junior team members share best practices and lead the adoption of emerging technologies. Your dedication to automation reliability and operational excellence will shape our organizations future and fuel sustainable growth.
This role blends technical challenge creative problem-solving and strategic impact. If youre passionate about leveraging automation for business transformation join us on this journey towards operational excellence.

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Software Development Engineer you will lead projects involving multiple teams in all aspects of the SDLC using an agile process. As the systems need to be built from the ground up you will have an opportunity to make a long-lasting impact! To be successful in this position you will have a strong background in Algorithms Data Structures Java and NoSQL. The ability to communicate clearly and concisely (both written and orally) and work well in a team are key competencies. You should be able to quickly adapt to new development environments learn new systems create reliable and maintainable code and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems. Experience working with high-traffic scalable services is a plus.

About the team
Amazon Digital Acceleration powers ordering subscriptions and device management for Prime Amazon Video Music Audible Alexa and Kindle amongst other digital businesses. We process billions of digital purchases every year and enable our digital businesses to grow their businesses worldwide. We are on a mission to be earths best provider of one-time and recurring digital commerce delivering a seamless and enjoyable post-purchase customer experience.

We are the DA Shared Services a core part of the broader Digital Acceleration(DA) ecosystem that enables and automates services across the end-to-end digital commerce lifecycle.

Our team provides the foundational infrastructure powering Amazons digital commerce operations. We own and operate critical platforms spanning Digital Storage Specialized Ordering (SO) Privacy compliance and Eventing supporting the persistence orchestration and transaction management layers that digital businesses depend on every day.

- 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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