Software Development Engineer, ADS
DESCRIPTION
Do you thrive on diving deep into complex systems and turning that insight into big-picture, strategic thinking to create simplistic and elegant digital experiences? Join our dynamic team at Foundational People Data Services (FPDS), where your expertise will be instrumental in re-imagining how innovative people data services are designed and delivered at Amazon, for Amazonians, by Amazonians.
Imagine being at the forefront of innovation, driving the design of cutting-edge experiences that empower Amazon builders to create amazing solutions powered by Amazonian data. The FPDS team is looking for a Senior UX Designer with a passion for improving the customer experience and designing for high-visibility programs that will impact experiences used by builders across Amazon. You will advocate for our customers and evangelize your designs to leaders, stakeholders, and team members. Your most important mission is to ensure that we’re designing experiences that delight and solve problems for Amazonians who rely on our services.
Join us in building an innovative technology using Amazon Web Services to meet the complex and unique demands of managing more than 2,000,000 employees globally; onboarding more than 100,000 employees in four weeks. We dive deep to insist on the highest standards in architecture, coding, testing, deploying and maintaining every aspect of our offerings.
If you’re thrilled by the idea of ownership, passionate about creating new platforms, features and services from scratch and comfortable with the pace of a company shipping software in cycles measured in weeks not years, we would love to connect with you.
We are looking for developers with strong computer science fundamentals, including UX design, data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis. If you have a track record of designing and building scalable, complex solutions across distributed systems in an agile environment, we want to talk to you.
Key job responsibilities
You will participate in the full development cycle, end-to-end, from design, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance.
You will evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing technologies and tools, and you’ll coach and mentor junior development engineers.
You will directly work with Senior Engineers and Principal Engineers in the org to define our architecture plans for the next three years.
You will be driving team to make decisions on build vs re-use by collaborating with Retail and Seller Pricing teams.
You will be responsible for setting standards and mechanisms for handling operational load.
About the team
Beginning in 2022, we built Foundational People Data Services, a secure, reliable, and fast way to store and consume worker data. We have helped builders across Amazon invent 7,800+ and growing experiences with our AWS-like, 1P data services which focus on the builder experience. We obsess over ensuring our data services are as foundational as electricity and water – always available, completely reliable, and convenient to use by builders. We’ve launched a secure and scalable people data store and event publishing bus; a people data catalog with federated ownership and compliance; role-based authorization and access controls to protect confidentiality; streamlined privacy reviews, depersonalization, and data subject access/deletion requests (DSARs/DSDRs); Tier-1 real-time data APIs for people data (PAPI); high-volume data transfer to the Andes data lake; and synthetic worker data to streamline testing.
We have seen rapid growth, with Amazon systems consuming 1 trillion employee records annually through billions of API calls to our 1P data services each week. We now have 5,000+ builder customer teams across AWS, Alexa, Payroll, Builder Tools, MyHR, A to Z, Clarity, GREF, Workplace Health & Safety, Time and Attendance, and more – over 75% of them are outside of People Experience & Technology (PXT). Our 1P data services offer real-time APIs and updates, powering vital end-user tools like Phone Tool (1,100+ page views per minute and 50M+ per month), Chime (800K+ calls per workday), Slack (350k+ employees and contingent workers using per workday), facilities badge access (95k+ salaried employees currently swipe in/out of their building each work day), LDAP, internal systems access, payroll, and more.
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