DESCRIPTION

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth and to grow in a safe environment for both our Customers and our associates. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, dynamic and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.

Are you passionate about working across multiple teams to build solutions that are more than the sum of their parts? Do you enjoy diving both into business requirements and into technical design scaled beyond anything yet in existence? Can you see the large picture and connect customer obsession to better processes and technology? Are you interested in helping Amazon raise the industry’s bar for customer safety and trust? If you love solving complex problems and designing systems that work at a large scale, while working alongside the some of the smartest and hardworking people, this might be the right opportunity for you.

Amazon’s Product Assurance, Risk & Security teams develop software that provides a durable and scalable solution to meet evolving global safety and compliance requirements, including supporting mission-critical programs such as product qualification, investigations, and recalls. We leverage state-of-the-art Machine Learning, distributed processing, and computational analysis to automate and improve beyond what’s been done anywhere before.

We are looking for highly talented software engineers to help build fast, scalable, robust systems to crystalize and execute this vision. If you are a strong software engineer with a wide range of skills and interests, and a desire to make a difference in the world, then we want to talk to you. A successful candidate for this position will be able to build new software from the ground up, create pragmatic solutions for complex business problems, enjoy working closely with operations staff to optimize physical processes, and be willing to occasionally travel to Amazon fulfillment centers and centers of excellence around the world.

Note: By applying to this position your application will be considered for Austin, TX or Seattle, WA, depending on your preference.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
· 6+ years professional experience in software development, with a demonstrated ability to envision, evangelize, and deliver solutions
· Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms, problem solving, and complexity analysis
· Knowledge of multiple programming languages, including include C++ and/or Java
· Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
· Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to gather requirements, describe software product features, and present technical designs.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Expertise with data structures, algorithms, and relational databases
· Expertise with AWS
· Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
· Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
· Experience influencing software engineering best practices within your team
· Full stack experience ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between.