Software Dev Engineer II, BuyX Detail Page Layouts

Do you want to solve business challenges through innovative technology and see the impact of your work reach millions of customers At Amazon we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers customer obsession is part of our company DNA. As a Software Development Engineer II on BuyX Layouts you will own the design and delivery of significant features and services end to end make architectural decisions raise the operational bar and mentor other engineers. You will work on scalable services in a fast-paced collaborative environment where development cycles are measured in weeks not years.

Key job responsibilities
- Own the design development and delivery of major features and services from broadly defined problems through to production and operations.
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
- Make sound architectural and technical trade-offs and drive engineering best practices design reviews code quality testing and operational excellence across the team.
- Build distributed storage index and query systems that are scalable fault-tolerant low cost and easy to manage and use.
- Collaborate with cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive design and bring innovative products and services to market.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the technical growth of the team.


A day in the life
The challenges SDEs solve at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers sellers and products around the world. You will partner with product managers designers and fellow engineers (including PE Sr Engineers) to take features from broadly defined problems to production. As an SDE II you will not only build but also help shape the technical direction of the team reviewing designs raising the quality and operational bar and mentoring others while managing ambiguity and the pace of a team that ships fast.

About the team
BuyX Layouts builds the shopping experiences that help customers evaluate products and make confident purchase decisions across Amazons detail and browse surfaces. We work on high-scale customer-facing systems and experiment rapidly to move the needle on the customer experience. Our culture is collaborative ownership-driven and obsessed with the customer we value engineers who dive deep think big and raise the bar for those around them.

- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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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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 WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually