Software Development Engineer - 3, Tax and Account Compliance

Join a team building the future of automated compliance in the product space. Your work will directly impact Amazon's ability to serve customers and partners safely and efficiently across the globe. The Tax and Account Compliance team is dedicated to enabling Amazon's business and sellers to scale confidently by delivering reliable, efficient compliance solutions

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Account Compliance team, you will lead the design and development of software that is extensible across use cases, products, and geographies. You will architect scalable distributed systems that support compliance workflows — systems that are highly available, low latency, and built for quality at every layer.

The ideal candidate will be eager to lead a team of innovators and own a suite of tools that power automated, scalable compliance and verification processing, with the end goal of providing Amazon shoppers and sellers with a frictionless and trustworthy experience. You will work in an Agile environment, partnering with product management and cross-functional teams to iterate quickly and raise the bar for our end users.

Key job responsibilities
• Design and develop highly secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems for compliance and verification solutions using cloud computing technologies
• Drive the overall development lifecycle of solutions and manage complex projects from inception to delivery
• Collaborate with security engineers and product managers to develop strategy and roadmaps for secure, customer-facing solutions
• Partner with engineering peers to develop technical designs and approaches for new product development
• Establish and promote best practices for software development, documentation, and code quality
• Ensure designs meet requirements and deliver high-quality work within defined timelines
• Manage project prioritization, planning of features, stakeholder communication, and tracking of commitments
• Drive operational excellence through monitoring and operation of production services

A day in the life
As a Senior Software Development Engineer, your day typically involves designing or researching technical solutions and alternatives for your team's most critical and complex features and projects. As a team leader, you will review your peers' code and dive deep into their design documents to provide feedback on software architecture, scalability, and security. You will code the critical code path on your projects and coordinate with peers on tasks you delegate to them. You advise your manager on trade-offs and product direction.

About the team
We are the Tax and Account Compliance team. We build the systems and products that help Amazon maintain marketplace integrity and earn customer trust at global scale. Our diverse team innovates on behalf of our customers to deliver best-in-class compliance experiences — enabling legitimate and strategic customers to launch and grow their businesses faster than anywhere else in the world. We are creating the most trusted store on earth, supporting Amazon's ability to innovate at scale.

Basic qualifications

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Preferred qualifications

- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

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