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Are you interested in working at the Amazon Store scale? Are you interested in accelerating store builders to help Amazon innovate faster? Come join us as we are building the authoring tools to deliver mobile and website shopping experiences that millions of Amazon customers use every day.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to help develop programming languages used by store builders to define customer experiences on the mobile app and retail website. You will use your technical expertise, leadership skills, and the ability to hit the ground running to solve complex problems. You will have the opportunity to partner with other teams while diving deep into distributed systems that serve hundreds of thousands of transactions per second.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will get to collaborate with multiple senior engineers across a large cross-section of the technical stack to propose and drive cross-system designs and implementations. This role provides you with autonomy and ownership of decisions, working backwards directly from customers. There are ample of opportunities for growth due to the high visibility work, and presence of senior engineering talent for guidance and mentorship. You will leverage technical skills like distributed systems, end-end system design and compilers.

Key job responsibilities
* You define new language capabilities and develop new language frameworks, including transpilers to other programming languages.
* You take ownership, discussing and delivering on deep technical details with other engineers on the team and across partner teams, collaborating with them to solve challenging problems.
* You create plans, communicate requirements, negotiate priorities, and clarify what success looks like.
* You define, deliver, and/or implement a variety of high quality, correct, customer focused technical solutions.
* You provide clear and concise verbal and written communication.
* You facilitate the dialogue, asking productive questions, providing recommendations, and fostering a shared understanding to identify risks and meet business needs.
* You participate in reviews of your peers’ work and provide useful and actionable input when submitted.
* You raise the bar on operational excellence while meeting/exceeding system SLAs (e.g. Availability, Latency)

A day in the life
This is a wide-ranging role that involves partnering closely with other technical leaders, engaging with store builders and influencing program leaders. It requires leading execution and delivery by a specialized team that is at the center of Amazon’s next-generation architecture. One day you may be driving a capability design, and another you may be leading delivery for a complex project, or participating in how to improve the team processes. Next, you may be plugged into an important operational issue that is impacting the health of the Store, influencing your team to make the best decision for the customer in the moment.

About the team
This team builds authoring tools and languages used by store builders to create shopping experiences for customers on Amazon’s online stores.
We are open to hiring candidates to work on the following location: Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
– Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

USA, WA, Seattle