About the position
Do you want to build systems that directly impact Amazon's customer experience? Are you excited by the idea of shaping the future of social shopping? Amazon's Creators organization is looking for Software Development Engineers who are passionate about building highly scalable, distributed systems. We power the Amazon Associates and Amazon Influencer programs-cornerstones of Amazon's social commerce offerings. Our mission is to build a great experience for commerce creators across the world, and their content. Amazon and Associates Program continue to see strong growth. As part of this team, you'll design and build systems that enable creators to thrive. You'll drive innovation in how creators are rewarded, recognized, and integrated across the Amazon experience. We're launching new products, scaling globally, and solving complex problems using big data, machine learning, and real-time systems. As a technical leader, you'll work on systems that process terabytes of data, orchestrate real-time interactions across services, and deliver a differentiated offering to attract and retain creators worldwide. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, this role is for you.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable systems supporting the Amazon Associates and Influencer programs globally, balancing short and long-term technology investments.
- Own and evolve core services and data central to Amazon Associates and Influencers experience.
- Work on projects that require innovative and creative thinking, deep technical problem solving, and mentor other engineers.
- Contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation and testing.
Requirements
- 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
- Bachelor's Degree
Nice-to-haves
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Benefits
- Equity
- Sign-on payments
- Medical benefits
- Financial benefits
- Other forms of compensation
