Software Development Engineer, Digital Acceleration

Interested in solving hard technical problems that have a direct impact on our business and customers? We are looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to join the Digital Royalties and Vendor Payments team. We are a part of the Digital Acceleration org that enables Digital businesses like Prime Video, Books, Music, Appstore, Audible and Games to launch new business lines and products. We are building next generation Royalties and Vendor Payment solutions that will enable Amazon Digital businesses to automate royalty calculation, payment and accounting processes while meeting regulatory requirements. This is a great opportunity to tackle some very interesting and complex architectural problems, innovate in the space and drive product direction. You will work with a team of passionate software engineers and will get an opportunity to learn from experienced technical leaders.

A successful candidate will have an extensive background in building highly scalable, highly available services, strong technical skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment, high creativity, and great analytical reasoning skills. If you enjoy cutting through ambiguity, creating strategic paths and obsessing over efficiency, write to us! We have just the right space for you to hit the ground running and fuel your growth!

• Key job responsibilities
• - Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• - Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• - Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• - Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• - Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• - Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

• A day in the life
• The challenges SDEs solve for at Digital Acceleration are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.

• About the team
• Our Digital Acceleration team is building services and platforms for customers to find the next product, get the best deal on the product and return again and again to that product. The team builds and operates services which operate at a very high transactions per second rate with very high availability and very low latency. The team is keenly focused on innovation in this space to help our customers with their ever evolving needs as they relate to Digital content. If this interests you, we’d love for you to apply and explore the opportunities to have fun and make history.

Basic qualifications

• - 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• - 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• - Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications

• - 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN, BC, Vancouver - 114,800.00 - 191,800.00 CAD annually