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Description

We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented Sr. Software Development Engineer who has experience building mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an opportunity to make an enormous impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used everyday by people you know.

Key job responsibilities

• You will provide technical leadership to our engineering team and work closely with engineering and product leaders to deliver solutions to our customers

• You will solve ambiguous business problems and map them to elegant technical solutions

• You will use object-oriented concepts, algorithms and data structures to build and future-proof systems at Amazon scale

• You will design, launch, and re-architect multi-tier distributed systems with large amounts of data

• You will quickly adapt to a fast-paced development environment with bias towards simple and extensible code

• You will provide mentorship and guidance for peers on their journeys at Amazon

About the team

Amazon’s Personalization organization is an impactful, high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, and distributed systems to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. You may already be familiar with features such as “Customers Who Bought Also Bought” and “Recommended for You” - that's Personalization! Our team owns a foundational backend system within the Personalization ecosystem. Our team’s culture is centered on rapid prototyping, experimentation, and data-driven decision-making, as we deliver essential changes for the service we operate; ranging from new business functionality, re-architecting software components, and optimizing code. We care deeply about our customers, as well as the well-being and growth of our team members. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow. This is a track record we are proud of and will continue to uphold. We are looking for creative and innovative leaders with a similar penchant for deeply-technical problem solving and the ability to lead, mentor, and deliver while upholding Amazon’s leadership principles.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Irvine, CA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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 $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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.