What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Development Engineer, AWS Commerce Platform position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
As a Software Engineer in AWS Commerce Platform, you will work on the hardest engineering problems in distributed systems at a massive scale and on multiple dimensions. You will exercise your intellectual curiosity, work with motivated teams of sharp individuals, partner with other senior and principal engineers, and provide guidance in defining your team’s engineering roadmap.
AWS Commerce Platform provides the infrastructure and services that enable AWS teams to sell their services to AWS customers, as well as help AWS customers understand and manage their infrastructure costs. AWS Commerce Platform computes the bills for AWS customers based on their usage, invoices them and collects payments.
Our team in AWS Billing (part of AWS Commerce Platform) owns one of the largest datastores at Amazon. We provide Git semantics like history, auditability, and branching for managing versioned datasets at scale. Today, we support clients with datasets that span across millions of repositories, comprising billions of files and petabytes of data, and handle upward of 1 million transactions per second. We enable myriad use cases in AWS that require low-latency, high throughput and are least error-tolerant workflows.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer, you will:
- Build highly available, secure, scalable, distributed and event-driven systems that handle confidential billing data at scale.
- Help define the system architecture, own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall experience
- Contribute to planning, architecture design, implementation, testing, and process improvement.
- Work closely with other teams across AWS to deliver platform features that require cross-team collaboration.
- Obsess over protecting customer information, maintaining single-digit millisecond latencies, and simplifying enterprise scale commerce complexity.
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
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