Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon Payment Services

Amazon Inc.; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Payment Services is seeking a seasoned Software Development Engineer II to design and build massive-scale distributed systems in a cloud environment. You will own major deliverables end-to-end, drive roadmaps, and provide technical leadership to the engineering team.

You will collaborate with product managers to shape strategy and roadmap, partner with senior engineers on architecture, and install best practices for development, testing, and production readiness to ensure reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing architectures.
• Proven track record leading engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build massive-scale distributed systems with end-to-end ownership.
• Drive the team’s technical direction and long-term architecture.
• Lead high-availability production systems and resolve complex issues.
• Collaborate with product managers to develop roadmaps.
• Mentor and work with senior engineers to craft robust designs.
• Instill best practices and ensure quality under tight schedules.
• Oversee project prioritization and stakeholder communication.
• Monitor and operate production services for reliability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud computing

Technical leadership

Roadmap ownership

Job description

Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon Payment Services

At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – customer obsession is part of our company DNA. Our Software Development Engineers (SDEs) use cutting-edge technology to solve complex problems and get to see the impact of their work first-hand. The challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon 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.

Job Responsibilities

• We are looking for a seasoned senior developer to design/build massive scale, distributed computing solutions. You will be responsible for driving the team’s technical direction, strategizing and shaping our long-term vision and architecture. You will own major deliverables end-to-end, drive roadmaps, and provide technical leadership to the engineering team.
• If you're excited by cloud computing, designing highly scalable, fault tolerant systems, and want to be challenged by the toughest computer science problems, then join us to build the next generation distributed systems solving big data problems.
• You should be someone who wants to conceive and design highly scalable, robust software, and wants to see their software thrive in the face of traffic from huge cloud computing services. The candidate should have strong distributed systems and web services design and implementation experience, as well as experience working on high availability production systems.
• Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex projects with significant bottom line impact
• Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities for our customers.
• Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
• Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
• Project management - prioritization , planning of projects and features, Stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments
• Operational Excellence - monitoring & operation of production services

Basic Qualifications

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

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