Software Development Engineer, PXTCS (People Experience and Technology Central Science)

Amazons People Experience and Technology Central Science (PXTCS) team uses economics behavioral science statistics machine learning and Generative AI to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements that simultaneously improve Amazon and the lives well-being and value of work for Amazonians. PXTCS is an interdisciplinary team that combines the talents of science engineering and UX to build and deliver solutions that measurably achieve this goal at a scale that touches over 1.5 million Amazonians worldwide.

As a Software Development Engineer on PXTCS youll work side by side with economists data scientists data engineers and applied scientists turning leading-edge ML and Generative AI models into reliable scalable production systems.

This is a rare chance to see your code directly shape how Amazon supports its workforce spanning areas like benefits compensation recruiting voice of employee management practices and organizational culture. We offer opportunities for builders to build and make history!

Key job responsibilities
- Work with teams across the org to deliver large distributed projects to delight our customers
- Write high-quality efficient testable code in Java and other object-oriented languages
- Build highly available secure systems in a microservices architecture
- Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry
- Own and operate the systems that you build
- Contribute to planning design implementation testing operations and process improvement
- Get firsthand experience engineering client apps as well as AWS services such as Lambda EC2 S3 DynamoDB and others

A day in the life
- Find out what it takes to engineer systems for Amazon Scale
- Contribute to planning design implementation testing operations and process improvement
- Get firsthand experience engineering client apps as well as AWS services such as Lambda EC2 S3 DynamoDB and others

About the team
PXTCS combines economics behavioral science statistics and machine learning to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements that improve both Amazons operations and the experience of every Amazonian. Its engineering teams take science-driven insights and models spanning areas like benefits compensation recruiting voice of employee management practices and organizational culture and turn them into production systems operating at Amazons scale. PXTCS is an interdisciplinary group where engineering applied science and product work side-by-side and where this teams output directly shapes how Amazon supports its workforce.

- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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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 Bellevue - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually