Senior Software Development Engineer, Monetization Product and Engineering

Are you interested in building the next generation, cloud-based commerce system for AWS? AWS Commerce Platform (CP) allows customers to purchase AWS services. CP teams tackle some of the hardest scalability, performance, and distributed computing challenges in the world, processing trillions of events per month. We are looking for a talented senior software development engineer who has a passion to develop distributed systems at scale to help build the next generation of AWS internal services. As a foundational system we scale with the growth of cloud computing at Amazon. The Monetization Product and Engineering (MPE) team is responsible for transforming our manual operations via ideating and automating complex manual processes that process $36+ Billion worth of bills each year. These include but are not limited to enabling: monthly bill run process for highly specialized custom contracts, generating and delivering monthly customers billing statements, automating and maintaining bill audits via implementing an easy-to-use configurable audit framework.

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Software Development Engineer on MPE team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of innovative software products which will help boost engineers productivity in Amazon, for improving services’ posture towards security, availability, efficiency, compliance and maintainability.
Key responsibilities:

- Define system architecture, own and implement specific components and help shape the overall billing experience by bringing perspective and context of current technology choices and guide future technology choices.
- Lead projects that require work of multiple engineers.
- Define and drive software best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, agile development, build processes, and testing.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, program managers, architects and PE from within and cross-functional teams across Billing and CP orgs.
- You will take responsibility for technical problem solving and creatively meeting product objectives in ambiguous scenarios where customer problems are defined but technology strategy is not yet defined.
- Coach and mentor engineers on the team to foster a supportive culture of collaboration, scalability, and performance.

A day in the life
You thrive in a fast-paced start-up like environment and want to invent the future. Your expertise is deep and broad; you start with the customer and work backwards to develop a coherent vision for services that support the flexibility and scale that customers expect from us. You have built and operated systems that support high-end business complexity and scale with simple and elegant solutions. You have a passion for the potential of computing to improve people’s lives, and a proven track record of leading teams through complex technology delivery. And you are the technical expert that can take on architectural challenges to innovative solutions, while demonstrating leadership, technical competence, and craftsmanship.

About the team
We are a team of software engineers and data engineers responsible for transforming our manual operations via ideating and automating complex manual processes that process $36+ Billion worth of bills each year via software services that scale to the need and seamlessly integrate with exiting CP solution stack.