Software Development Engineer, Experience Generator
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
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 re-inventing Amazon’s Store architecture and building the future runtime architecture to deliver mobile and website shopping experiences that millions of Amazon customers use every day.
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to lead development of Amazon’s Experience Generator service, a central runtime that handles Amazon’s most important shopping workloads. You will use your deep technical expertise, excellent leadership skills, and ability to hit the ground running to solve complex problems. You will build and interface with services that scale to millions of requests and deployed globally. 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 an SDE in the team, you will get to collaborate with multiple Principal Engineers and Senior Engineers across a large cross-section of Retail Foundation technical stack, to propose and drive cross-system designs and implementations. This role provides you with autonomy and ownership on decisions, working backwards directly from customers. There is ample of opportunity 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-to-end system design with resiliency, and core Java development skills.
Key job responsibilities
- You take ownership of investigating and solving problems, and don’t wait for permission. You lead with empathy while doing so.
- You are comfortable discussing and delivering on deep technical details with senior engineers across partner teams, collaborating with them to solve challenging problems.
- You can think strategically, identifying areas of long-term technical investment spanning a year or more.
- You can lead engineers to investigate design approaches, prototype technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
- You establish architectural principles, select design patterns, and mentor team members on their appropriate application.
- Operate a largescale container-based workload to deliver with operational excellence while meeting/exceeding system SLAs (e.g. Availability, Latency)
- You communicate effectively two levels up from your manager, with local and remote teams, verbally and in writing.
A day in the life
This role involves partnering closely with other technical leaders, engaging with internal customers (e.g., 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 long term capability strategy document, and another you may be leading a complex delivery, or improving the performance of an existing service. 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
The Experience Generator team is a highly skilled specialty runtime team within the Amazon retail organization. We value availability of our customers features above all else.