Software Development Engineer, Pricing Platform

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a passionate Software Development Engineer to join their Pricing Shared Services team. In this exciting role, you will be at the forefront of developing and scaling services that manage pricing for billions of listings. You will leverage your expertise in software development to tackle complex problems and optimize systems for performance and scalability. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will contribute to a culture of innovation and continuous learning, while enhancing your skills and those of your colleagues. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment that values creativity and problem-solving.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience required.
• Experience with design patterns and system architecture is essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop services and optimize performance in distributed systems.
• Contribute to peer code reviews and mentoring within the team.

Skills

Software Development

Distributed Systems

Problem Solving

Code Reviews

Design Patterns

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Source Control Management

Build Processes

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Pricing Platform

Job ID: 2950136 | Amazon.com Services LLC

The Pricing Shared Services team owns the core set of systems which decides prices of products sold by Amazon Retail. The team owns system data vending, notification, and price publishing systems which are used by multiple pricing strategy teams for building their price recommendation and submission of their recommended prices. These systems scale to thousands of TPS and compute prices for billions of listings every month. We are building new services that radically scale the publishing capacity of our systems while making our services multi-tenant to support Amazon's growing number of businesses. We collaborate with product, science, and business teams to figure out new ideas. We innovate by applying state-of-the-art computer science to define, design, and build our systems. We experiment with different approaches, eager to learn from whatever the results are while having fun along the way.

To help meet these goals, we are looking for a passionate, talented Software Development Engineer. We are looking for someone who innovates, loves solving hard problems, and looks for 'yes' as the answer. As a Software Development Engineer, you will develop services using your expertise and experience with a variety of technologies. You will deep-dive into distributed systems to design and optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability, and extensibility. You will innovate and scale services, addressing problems that span new feature development to new system creation. You will design and write clean, maintainable code and integrate data from a large number of services. You will contribute to the development of yourself and colleagues through peer code reviews and mentoring, improving the technical knowledge and engineering practices of your team.

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
- Bachelor's Degree

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience