Senior Software Development Engineer Job in Amazon

DESCRIPTION

Amazon HR is investing heavily in technology for an overdue architectural-level upgrade to scale and automate with an exponentially growing workforce. Our mission is clear: We seek to be the most technically proficient HR organization in the world. Our team includes dedicated engineers, computer scientists, and product managers who develop world-class, easy, and intuitive products for candidates and employees. We need a Sr. SDE to help define and architect the overall architecture of our core HR systems while building innovative mechanisms to further secure our data and automate our HR processes.

The work we do matters. Paying employees on time, enabling people to work, and supporting major company initiatives like increasing the US minimum wage to $15 changes peoples lives (as evidenced by direct testimonials from employees). We are our own customers its our data that we need to keep secure, our pay and benefits we want to keep accurate, and our people processes that we need to optimize.

We are looking for a Sr.Software Engineer to help define and implement the software architecture by working closely with engineering teams located in Seattle, Boston, and Hyderabad. Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:
Exhibits excellent judgment
Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or the technology
Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
Strong results orientation
Thinks big

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Masters Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 7+ year relevant work experience
Demonstrated strong coding and design proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, C# or C++
Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build and release processes, continuous deployment, and test suite development and maintenance
Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
Excellent written and spoken communication

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Masters Degree in Computer Science
Experience with languages/technologies such as Ruby on Rails UI, R , ReactJS, Jasmine and Python
Exposure to Oracle, RedShift, Arora, ANSI SQL and Dynamo is desirable.
Excellent communication skills, able to actively participate in team discussions, knowing when to contribute, when to listen, and when to ask questions
Ability and drive to continually improve your knowledge, skillset and understanding of Amazons business, systems, development environment
Passion towards problem-solving and strong decision-making ability
Ability to think critically and arrive at elegant solutions to challenging problems
Proven track-record delivering high-quality, on-time, elegant solutions
Ability to deal with ambiguous situations and think abstractly
Familiar with AWS, Scalability of apps to serve 1+ million users
Ability to discuss architecture for supporting mobile platforms
Exposure to mobile application development would be valuable.