Salary DOE. Relocation and visa sponsorship (transfers only at this time) available.  Forwards OK.  No agencies please.

Senior Software Developer

As merchants of all sizes worldwide are being empowered to build their own online stores on the Amazon e-commerce platform, the WebStore by Amazon team is seeking a Senior Software Development engineer to assume a highly visible, technical leadership position to lead the design, implementation, testing, and delivery of a new suite of world-class services that will help merchants bring their products and offerings onto the Amazon.com platform. The ideal candidate will draw upon exemplary analytical, critical thinking, and problem solving skills, deep software development experience, and a passion for creating reliable and maintainable systems.  This technical leader will demonstrate an ability to influence people at all levels, mentor talented, ambitious junior engineers, drive continuous process improvement, and collaborate effectively with aggressive cross-functional business and software development teams to solve problems and implement new solutions.

Experience and Knowledge

• 5+ years of experience developing large scale distributed transaction processing and/or reporting systems.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent; MBA is a plus.
• Demonstrated success in a software engineering leadership role.
• Solid proficiency with Java or C++, and SQL, preferably in a UNIX/Linux environment.
• Experience with Perl, Oracle, XML/XSLT, SOAP and web services technologies.
• Proven experience of building simple to use systems to upload / manage large amounts of data.
• Thorough understanding of enterprise information systems, service oriented architectures, and operational data stores.
• Knowledge of best practices for implementing systems that run 24×7 with 99.99%+ availability requiring minimal to no human intervention.
• Strong project-management skills, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.

Positions are located in Seattle, WA.

For consideration for this and any other Amazon openings, please email your resume to me at the email address below. 

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Stephanie Thompson  |  Senior Recruiter  |  Amazon
E: sthompso@amazon.com   P: 206.266.8998 C: 206.696.3173

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