Software Development Engineer, Amazon Prime

Amazon Prime is world’s most recognized membership program and is one of the most critical aspects of Amazon business overall. The Prime Technology team has been engaged in evolving the technology services for geographic expansion as well as building new core services in line with the new program launches. The team has a great set of complex unsolved technical & business problems on the roadmap. The solution for these need to be designed & developed considering use cases across various membership programs in Amazon and not limited to only Prime programs.

Key expectations from the role:
1. Quickly ramp up on the new solutions prioritized in current roadmap and contribute to the design & implementation of the same.
2. Proactively liaise with both business teams and other technical teams and to mentor junior engineers in the team.
3. Optimization of the existing technology stack for scalability and transformation to common infrastructure to support multiple membership programs.
4. Actively work with team to improve on operational excellence, quality of deliverable and improve on continuous deployment.


The massive scale (and continuously increasing) of Amazon Prime membership provides every technologist exposure to design & architecture of highly distributed and scalable systems and scope to further innovate. The role will also allow for opportunities to grow into next level of technical leadership and thereby play a much bigger role in designing innovative solutions impacting larger aspects of Prime and overall Amazon business. Come and join the team which enables world’s largest membership program!

Key job responsibilities
Key expectations from the role:

1. Quickly ramp up on the new solutions prioritized in current roadmap and contribute to the design & implementation of the same.


2. Optimization of the existing technology stack for scalability and transformation to common infrastructure to support multiple membership programs.

3. Proactively liaise with both business teams and other technical teams and to mentor junior engineers in the team.

4. Actively work with team to improve on operational excellence, quality of deliverable and improve on continuous deployment.

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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