Senior Software Development Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Amazon People Technology (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/people-technology) is rethinking how we empower our employees at Amazon with innovative approaches to HR software. We are developing one of the most complex employee systems in the world - ensuring that our employees have a secure, responsive and user-friendly way of connecting to Amazon and one another, protecting personal and private employee data, and building a core infrastructure that will be used by teams throughout our global company. This is a place where we innovate in recruiting, managing employee data, and developing careers by incorporating advanced technologies like AWS and Machine Learning to enable Amazon HR to scale from thousands to millions of employees.

The People Technology team in Seattle is hiring experienced engineers with entrepreneurial spirit to join us in this highly visible opportunity. Our growing team is a place where diverse perspectives, collaboration, and inclusivity are valued. You will have the opportunity to help define team culture as well as contribute your engineering expertise and leadership. Come help us lead this new work to empower Amazon people and businesses to focus on what they do best: changing the world.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you can take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous HR, operational and business problems. You will own and heavily influence the architecture and design, and will write a significant portion of the "critical-path" code. You will influence the team's technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to priorities and approach. You contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operations. You are empowered to own all aspects of solutions end-to-end through full stack software development. Successful candidates are strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivering large scale solutions.