“WARNING: Choking Hazard — small parts. Not for children under 3 years.”
“WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including antimony trioxide, which are known to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm.”
Have you ever seen these warning labels on popular and seemingly innocent products, such as fidget spinners or food containers? As the Buyer Safety Experience team for Amazon.com, we aim to raise the bar when it comes to educating and empowering consumers about product safety. Our team is responsible for the complete end-to-end safety experience for buyers — from the warnings you see on the product detail pages (and how to turn them into useful, actionable information), to making safer product recommendations targeted to each individual consumer’s needs, to informing consumers of recalled products and preventing them from being delivered to their doorstep.
As a member of this growing team, you’ll be able to build the groundwork and influence its direction for the years to come. Our work cuts across various disciplines — from delivering an awesome user experience via great UI/UX, to building massively scalable backend systems to support the most high-traffic pages on Amazon.com, to analytical and feedback systems which give us data-driven customer insights, to using machine learning to influence recommendations and marketing. If you have a passion for consumer-facing applications, and are obsessed with customer experience, we want you!
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
- Help define the system architecture, own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall experience
- Collaborate closely with product managers, UX designers, and other SDE team members to help define the scope of the product
- Take responsibility for technical problem solving, creatively meeting product objectives, and developing best practices
- Demonstrate cross-functional resource interaction to accomplish your goals
- Write high-quality, efficient, testable code in Java and other object-oriented languages
- Design Amazon-scale tools to facilitate internal business
- Build highly available, secure, and low-latency systems
- Mentor other developers
- Find out what it takes to engineer systems for "Amazon Scale"
- Design and build microservices
- Own and operate the systems that you build based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements
- Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement
A day in the life
High-level designs, cross-team alignment, long-term architectural roadmap and technical strategy, understanding the business domain and proposing solutions to address customer and business problems, helping scope and analyze product requirements, mentorship, reviewing CRs, writing high-quality code to be an example for the team.- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 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- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit
https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location 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. For more information, please visit
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
