Software Development Engineer

Would you like to work on one of the world's largest transactional distributed systems How about working with customers and peers from the entire range of Amazon's business on exciting new features Whether you're passionate about building highly scalable and reliable systems or a software developer who likes to solve business problems, Amazon Tax Platform Services is the place for you.

We are responsible for the tax platform, providing core services that calculate taxes (sales tax and VAT) for all Amazon sales, physical and digital, globally. Our services generate tax invoices, ensuring the correct tax amounts are applied to the customer at order time. We also ensure that audit records are safely stored to meet global tax law requirements, all while generating tax-compliant invoices. Our challenges include keeping up with complex and ever-changing global tax rates and laws, making precise tax calculations at high speedthousands of times per secondand ensuring each one is accurate.

We are looking for software engineers who thrive on complex problems and relish the challenge of operating complex, mission-critical systems under extreme loads. Our systems manage hundreds of millions of records, responding to millions of service requests per minute. Are you up for the challenge Or would you like to learn more and stretch your skills and career

The successful candidate will contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing, and operations. The role requires strong verbal and written communication skills, a self-driven work ethic, and the ability to deliver high-quality results in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will enjoy working closely with a team of highly talented engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the team to drive business decisions.
• Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative software solutions to optimize services, cost, and security.
• Use software engineering best practices to maintain high standards of quality across deliverables.
• Write high-quality distributed system software.
• Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, focusing on high-priority tasks.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience in designing or architecting new and existing systems (design patterns, reliability, and scaling).
• 3+ years of experience in the Video Games Industry (supporting title development, release, or live ops).
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

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