Builder Works at Amazon sits at the intersection of traffic engineering, region flexibility, and developer enablement. Every time a customer clicks on Amazon.com, complex underlying systems route requests to the right machines in the right regions, computing and delivering content in milliseconds, even during Prime Day or Black Friday peaks.
We build frameworks and systems powering store presentations, catalog pages, and content pipelines used by both developers and creative teams to author Amazon’s shopping experiences at scale. Our mission: enable seamless, engaging customer experiences while operating at massive, global scale. Design and implement scalable systems that route customer requests to the optimal region, balancing latency, cost, and availability. Build and optimize frameworks enabling the creation of dynamic store presentations and catalog pages, supporting high traffic events like Prime Day.
Develop and maintain traffic engineering proxies and networking solutions to support region flexibility and data center expansion. Collaborate with internal Amazon developers and creative teams to build tools that enhance content authoring and presentation, reducing time-to-publish for promotional and cross-promotional content. Engineer systems to precompute and fetch data from thousands of sources, balancing real-time computation with precomputation for consistent low-latency delivery. Design with scalability in mind, ensuring system stability and performance at tens of thousands of transactions per second.
Contribute to the exploration and integration of AI-powered developer experiences within Builder Works to enhance productivity for Amazon’s engineering teams.
Key job responsibilities
We are looking for 4+ yrs of backend experience and 2+ yrs of System design Experience.
A day in the life
In a typical day, you will work on supercritical systems that directly impact Amazon’s customer experience globally. Tackle unique scaling challenges that go beyond most mid-sized or even large companies. Influence the future of AI and developer productivity within Amazon. Collaborate with teams that care about both the technical depth and creative enablement of Amazon’s store / App experiences.
About the team
We’re hosting a hiring event for multiple teams that support Builder Foundations GRID across Tokyo, Japan. Join us to explore exciting career opportunities!
- 4+ 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- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 4+ 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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The base salary for this position ranges from $114,800/year up to $191,800/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
