Software Development Engineer, Amazon - Selling Partners

Amazon Selling Partner Services team drives the Selling On Amazon business and develops solutions that enable millions of sellers around the world to sell on Amazon"s Marketplaces. More than half of shipments for Amazon customers are generated from this business. The team is focused on building a technology platform that will support the explosive business growth in existing markets, streamline the business for Amazon and the Selling partners and launch business in new markets and establish a fair marketplace.

Our team is seeking engineers with broad technical skills to help us optimize how we synthesize massive amounts of data and complex business rules into mission critical financial information. As a member of this team you will employ object oriented techniques in Java, DynamoDB, Postgres and ElasticSearch skills to help us support Amazon"s next generation of selling partner services. Along the way you"ll gain and leverage a unique understanding of how Amazon.com works; from the numerous software systems that comprise the website"s back-end, to the details of our business model, and the relationships we"re establishing with an ever-growing network of selling partners who depend on Amazon.com to run their businesses.

The ideal candidate will draw upon exemplary analytical, critical thinking, and problem solving skills, and a passion for maintaining highly reliable, distributed systems which operate 24/7/365. Successful members of this team collaborate effectively with internal end-users, cross-functional software development teams, and technical support/sustaining engineering teams to solve problems and deliver successfully against high operational standards of system availability and reliability. We look for engineers who are excellent communicators, self-motivated, flexible, hardworking, and who like to have fun!

Key job responsibilities

• You work with the team to design, build, and operate systems that are secure, available, and performant.
• You solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and architectural patterns.
• You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them (and when it is not). Your solutions are pragmatic navigating constraints.
• You create maintainable software without over-engineering. You make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies.
• You focus on operational excellence, understanding how decisions impact operational costs, and take on projects that make software easier to maintain.

A day in the life

• Designing and driving technical decisions that balance competing priorities and constraints
• Implementing changes at a high quality achieving stringent requirements for availability, security, and performance
• Creating and implementing automation that improve system reliability and operational efficiency
• Working closely with dependent teams to enhance system capabilities and resolve technical challenges
• Driving investigations to root cause anomalies, and delivering robust solutions

About the team

The Amazon Selling Partner Services team drives the Selling On Amazon business, developing solutions that enable millions of sellers worldwide to succeed on Amazon"s marketplaces. With more than half of customer shipments generated from this business, our team focuses on building a technology platform supporting explosive growth in existing markets while streamlining operations for Amazon and selling partners.

We"re seeking engineers with broad technical skills to help optimize how we synthesize massive amounts of data and complex business rules into mission-critical financial information. You"ll work with Java, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch while gaining unique understanding of Amazon"s systems, business model, and relationships with our ever-growing network of selling partners. Our collaborative environment values excellent communication, self-motivation, and engineers who solve problems while having fun building the future of e-commerce.