Senior Software Engineer, Billing Data Services

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle, WA is seeking an SDE II on the Billing Data Services (BiDS) team to build and operate the foundations for AWS billing data. You will own large-scale distributed systems, shaping data contracts and storage paths used by hundreds of AWS teams.

You will mentor others, drive architectural direction, and work across teams to uphold data quality and system reliability in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 6+ years of programming with at least one software language.

Responsibilities

• Design high-quality, efficient, and testable code in Java and other OO languages.
• Build large-scale, highly available distributed systems for ingesting, storing, and serving authoritative billing data at AWS scale.
• Design storage and serving paths that meet freshness, accuracy, and latency requirements for downstream billing pipelines.
• Partner with downstream teams on schema and data contract changes, ensuring migrations are backward compatible.
• Own and operate the systems you build, ensuring data quality and operational rigor.
• Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as part of a Scrum team.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers across Commerce Platform teams to deliver features and promote best practices.

Skills

Leadership experience

Mentor / tech lead

Software development

Java programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Java

Job description

We make AWS billing data trustworthy at the source. As a Software Development Engineer II on the Billing Data Services (BiDS) team, you will build and operate the foundational systems that capture, store, and serve the billing facts that AWS billing services rely on.

Our services sit upstream of bill computation systems. We ingest billing data from across AWS (such as pricing, subscriptions, and entitlements), persist it as a single source of truth, and serve it to the teams and pipelines that join it with usage to synthesize customer-facing billing artifacts. We operate at the scale of all of AWS, where correctness is non-negotiable and a single bad record can ripple into thousands of customer bills.

As a senior software engineer on this team, you will lead the technical direction for large-scale distributed systems built on AWS services. You will design durable storage and serving paths, and build the data layer that hundreds of AWS teams depend on. Your work will impact millions of external customers and sit on the critical path of Billing.

Key job responsibilities

• Design high-quality, efficient, and testable code in Java and other object-oriented languages.
• Build large-scale, highly available distributed systems for ingesting, storing, and serving authoritative billing data at the scale of all of AWS.
• Design storage and serving paths that meet demanding freshness, accuracy, and latency requirements for downstream billing pipelines.
• Partner with downstream teams on schema and data contract changes, making sure migrations are backward compatible and do not disrupt their pipelines.
• Own and operate the systems you build, holding a high bar for data quality, correctness, and operational rigor.
• Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as a member of a Scrum team.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers across Commerce Platform teams to deliver features and drive the adoption of best practices.

A day in the life

You might start the morning reviewing ingestion and data quality dashboards before joining a design review for a new storage or serving path. By midday, you are working with a downstream team on a schema or data contract change, making sure the migration is backward compatible and won't disrupt their pipelines. In the afternoon, you are deep in an approach to cut serving latency or raise ingestion throughput, then aligning with a partner team on an upstream event format change. You balance long‑term platform investments with the immediate needs of the teams that depend on your data.

About the team

We own the systems that hold and serve the authoritative billing facts for AWS Commerce Platform services. BiDS delivers timely and consistent operational billing data to support near real‑time bill computation and cost and usage monitoring for AWS, giving billing teams a high-performance, queryable, and cost-effective data layer to store and access operational billing data.

Because we sit upstream of the bill computation systems, our data quality and freshness affect SLAs for the systems downstream. We treat correctness and operational rigor as first principles, but we move quickly when downstream teams and customers need us. We solve problems at the intersection of large-scale data systems, durable storage, and the trust customers place in their bill. This is a space where being right matters more than anything, and where the data we own touches every Billing team.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 6+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ 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.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually