Software Development Engineer, Amazon Traffic Engineering

The ServiceLens console Team develops modeling and UI frameworks to simplify the service on boarding experience of internal teams. Our services operate at scale, enables thousands of software development teams across Amazon to get started with using solutions across Amazon rapidly by providing intuitive UX, well defined support mechanisms and engagement options.


We are looking for a passionate, results-oriented, inventive Software Development Engineer to refine and deliver our grand vision, design and implement technical solutions useful for teams across Amazon. The candidate should thrive in a fast-paced environment, understands service-oriented architecture, and will help us help the business innovate quickly at scale.
Successful candidates will have a proven track record of developing highly distributed systems using Agile and incremental delivery methods. You must enjoy working on complex software systems in a customer-centric environment and be passionate not only about building good software but also ensuring that same software achieve its goals in operational reality.


Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable software solutions that calculate taxes accurately and efficiently across Amazon's global operations, handling millions of service requests per minute
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions that meet tax compliance standards worldwide
- Develop, test, and deploy high-quality distributed system software using software engineering best practices and modern development methodologies
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including design reviews, code reviews, documentation, testing, and operational support of production systems
- Contribute to system reliability and performance by monitoring production metrics, identifying optimization opportunities, and implementing improvements to ensure our services meet demanding scale and accuracy requirements

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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Preferred qualifications

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

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