Software Development Engineer III, Region Flexibility Engineering

The Region Flexibility Engineering (RFE) team builds and leverages foundational infrastructure capabilities, tools, and datasets needed to support the rapid global expansion of Amazon's SOA infrastructure. Our team focuses on robust and scalable architecture patterns and engineering best practices, driving adoption of ever-evolving and advanced AWS technologies. RFE is looking for a passionate, results-oriented, inventive Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE) to refine and deliver our grand vision, design and implement technical solutions for regional placement automation, cross-region libraries, and tooling useful for teams across Amazon.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE), you will solve some of the most intriguing problems in software architecture while designing and building highly scalable services and solutions from the ground up. Our project spans across all of Amazon Stores, Digital and Others (SDO) Businesses. We work closely with AWS teams to advise them on SDO requirements to set up required infrastructure. You will work closely with and learn from a large Principal Engineering community. As innovators who embrace new technology, you will be empowered to choose the right highly scalable and available technology to solve complex problems and will directly influence product design.

We are looking for a highly motivated engineer who understands service-oriented architecture, and will help us help the business innovate quickly at scale. You will be responsible for solving algorithmically complex problems, work on front and backend services that can scale to millions of requests, build products that will reach tens of thousands of developers and deploy them globally delivering an exceptional customer experience.

If you enjoy designing and building highly distributed systems that can scale and solving challenging problems, come join us Given the size and impact of RFE's customer base, we understand the importance of making our development tools "just work". We make it easy to build high quality, reliable systems build and maintain Amazon Customer trust, that support Amazon's evolving architectural needs. Come help us create and evolve the abstractions that make developing software at Amazon even more flexible

Key job responsibilities

Regional Flexibility Engineering is looking for a software engineer passionate about service-oriented architectures that wants to support Amazon's businesses innovate quickly at scale. Come join us if you enjoy designing and building highly distributed systems that scale You will solve algorithmically complex problems, work on front end / back end services that scale, and delight thousands of Amazon engineers with the exceptional customer experiences that you build. You will solve intriguing problems designing and building for Amazon's scale. With our projects spanning across all of Amazon Stores, Digital and Others (SDO) businesses, you will work with AWS technologies and advise SDO teams how to setup required infrastructure. As an innovator who embraces new technology, you will directly influence product design and you will be empowered to choose the highly scalable and available technology to solve complex problems. You will be supported by a large and experienced Principal Engineering community in your work with cross-cutting teams and technologies.

Come help us create and evolve the abstractions that make developing software at Amazon flexible

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

• 5+ 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

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The base salary for this position ranges from $150,700/year up to $251,700/year. Salary is based on a number of factors 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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.