Software Development Engineer II, Item Pipeline

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

Amazon is a fast paced innovative company that is developing software that no
one has attempted before. If you are a software developer who is passionate
about writing code and loves to build distributed systems that are
transactional, scalable, high throughput, fault tolerant and always available,
then get in touch with us.

The Item and Relationship team is responsible for a variety of services that
form a core part of the Amazon eCommerce platform. We are primarily responsible
for developing the services that process all of the Item information from
millions of merchants who want to sell through the Amazon family of websites.
Our expertise lies in managing billions of products in the catalog and
developing large scale distributed systems that process hundreds of millions of
changes to the catalog every day in real time. The team offers a unique blend of
hard computer science problems and an opportunity to help the businesses model
their new ideas.

Successful candidates are passionate about translating high-level, ambiguous
business goals to software platforms that enable multiple businesses. You are
comfortable taking initiative and working along side top-notch software
developers and work on cross-team projects.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Experience communicating clearly and concisely with leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams

Nice To Haves

• 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
• Experience designing, building, operating, and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level