Software Development Engineer II, FinOps FP&A

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer II for its Global Finance Services team in Seattle, Washington. The role involves designing and implementing multi-tier distributed software applications, requiring strong collaboration with multiple teams. Candidates should have over 3 years of professional software development experience, 2 years in design or architecture, and proficiency in at least one programming language. A Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent is preferred. The position emphasizes continuous learning and innovation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, and implement multi-tier distributed software applications.
• Estimate engineering effort and plan implementation.
• Collaborate in a fast-paced environment with multiple teams.

Skills

Software development

Collaboration

Java

Linux

AWS services

GenAI

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer II, FinOps FP&A

Amazon is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth's most customer-centric company & to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.

Amazon's Global Finance Services (GFS) team is a fast‑paced, team‑focused, dynamic environment and delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority. GFS is seeking a Software Development Engineer.

As an Amazon SDE, you will design, develop, and deploy reliable distributed solutions at Amazon scale, working with core technologies including Java, Linux, AWS services and GenAI. Collaboration with teams across Amazon will be essential as you help redefine the industry. The ideal candidate excels in ambiguous environments, builds high‑risk components first, and maintains focus on architectural goals while delivering incremental launches. You should create scalable, robust, and elegant solutions, valuing simplicity in solving complex problems.

Your analytical approach should be data‑driven, with a deep understanding of customer needs and a passion for innovating on their behalf. You will participate in setting development team quality standards while maintaining a big‑picture perspective. As a team player, you recognize that amazing results come from smart, creative, and empathetic teammates. You actively foster an inclusive team culture, provide constructive feedback, and help grow team members while holding them accountable for smart decisions and results.

This role offers continuous learning opportunities, the chance to make a positive impact, and an engaging work atmosphere where you'll tackle novel challenges daily.

Key job responsibilities

• Define, design, and implement multi-tier distributed software applications.
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, and adherence to development goals and principles.
• Must be able to independently design code and test major features, as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes.
• Must be able to effectively collaborate in a fast paced environment with multiple teams in a large organization (software development, QA, Project/Release Management, Build and Release, etc.).
• Provide on‑call production support for payment platform applications.

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.