Software Development Engineer II International Emerging Stores Sub-same Day

Amazon; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.in is hiring a Software Development Engineer II to own high-scale, low-latency services for Sub-Same-Day delivery across India and Emerging Marketplaces. You will design and build services that deliver fastest reliable promises for every order, impacting conversion and delivery speed.

You will mentor SDE-1s, lead end-to-end features, and collaborate with Promise, transportation, search, and other teams to maintain operational excellence and rapid, safe production rollouts.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• 2+ years design or architecture experience on distributed systems.
• 1+ years building large-scale, multi-tiered applications.
• Proficiency in OO design and at least one of C#, C++, Java, or Perl.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, low-latency services for SSD delivery promises.
• Own features end-to-end from requirements through production operations.
• Lead design discussions and align with partner teams like Promise and transportation.
• Maintain operational excellence with monitoring, on-call, and rapid production rollouts.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical roadmaps.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

C++

Java

C#

Perl

Object oriented design

Latency-sensitive design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Job description

Job Description:

Do you want to shape how fast Amazon can deliver to hundreds of millions of customers? The Sub-Same-Day (SSD) team builds the technology behind Amazons fastest delivery promises across India and Emerging Marketplaces 2 getting orders to customers in hours, not days.

We're looking for a Software Development Engineer II who wants to own high-scale, low-latency systems that directly move the speed and reliability customers see at checkout. Youll design and build services that compute and optimize the fastest reliable delivery promise for every order.

• Build customer-facing systems at massive scale and single-digit-millisecond latency
• Own features end-to-end, from design through production and operations
• Directly impact conversion, delivery speed, and customer trust across 10+ marketplaces

Key job responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, low-latency, highly available services that power SSD delivery promises.
• Own features end-to-end — requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operations.
• Lead design discussions and independently drive alignment with partner teams (Promise, transportation, search etc. ).
• Uphold operational excellence: monitoring, alarming, on-call, and driving down defects and tickets.
• Dive deep on edge cases, testing, and safe production rollouts (canary deployments, metrics, dashboards).
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks; communicate progress, blockers, and tradeoffs clearly.
• Mentor SDE-1s and junior engineers ffor code and designs, unblock them, and raise the technical bar.
• Contribute to the teams technical roadmap and continuous improvement of our systems.

A day in the life

Youll partner with product managers, applied scientists, and engineering teams across Promise, ATROPS, transportation, and DEX to ship features that make delivery faster and more reliable. A typical day includes a team standup, design and code reviews, hands-on development, and digging into production metrics. Youll take part in operational excellence and on-call to keep our services healthy. Beyond delivery, we invest in learning and fun quarterly hackathons and fortnightly GenAI brown-bag sessions where the team explores new technology together.

About the team

The Sub-Same-Day (SSD) team owns the technology behind Amazons fastest delivery experiences across India and Emerging Marketplaces (AU, BR, MX, AE, SA, SG, EG, TR, ZA). Our mission is to give every customer the fastest reliable promise we can keep nd to extend same-day and sub-same-day speed to new marketplaces and customers. Were a high-ownership, customer-obsessed team that values deep technical work, operational excellence, and continuous learning. We move fast, support each other, and celebrate wins together.

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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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