Senior Software Dev Engineer

Are you excited about building a powerful new ecosystem for Brand Owners? Are you thrilled to work on a new initiative? If so, we are looking for you.

Amazon Brand Registry and Protection is a new initiative geared to enhancing the experience for Brand Owners. We realize that the future of Marketplace – and Amazon – is in winning brands. This includes the well-known, established brands as well as new and emerging brand owners. Our vision is to provide Brands with the most trusted experience for accurately representing and protecting their Brand Identity.

We will be delivering a wide range of automations and experiences using massive big datasets and distributed frameworks. You will develop innovative solutions for brand registry, brand protection, brand owner profile and experiences. You will develop high performance platforms to service the world’s largest selection to millions to customers. We will learn from existing data through machine learning and build targeted solutions for brand owners.

You will be an integral part of an exceptionally talented team. You will have an opportunity to conceptualize, design, build, test and own software systems. You will build services to handle billions of requests per day, while maintaining the response latencies in milliseconds and meeting strict SLA requirements. As a SDE at Amazon, you will drive the technical direction of the team, working with many different technologies. You will design and code, troubleshoot and support.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 6+ years of SDE experience working on challenging software projects and operating scalable software systems.
• Strong object-oriented design skills with knowledge of Java, C, C++, or C#

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to effectively articulate and drive solutions to technical and business challenges.
• Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly.
• Experience working with driving product vision to deliver long term customer and advertiser value.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Willingness to own all stages of development process: requirements, design, implementation, testing and operational support.
• Graduate degree a plus.
• Experience with Java or other object oriented languages – preferably on a UNIX or Linux platform.
• Experience with distributed systems, algorithms and big data.
• Experience writing unit and system level tests using dependency injection frameworks and object mocking.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Experience coaching junior SDEs including code review and design review.
• Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.