Come build the future as a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon, where you will be inspired working along best-in-class inventors and innovators! You will have the opportunity to create meaningful experiences that deliver on the ever-evolving needs of our customers, and your work will impact millions of people around the world.

The Amazon Foundational People Data Services (FPDS) team is building solutions to enable employees and managers to self-serve changes across all human resource processes.
Join us in building an innovative technology using Amazon Web Services to meet the complex and unique demands of managing nearly 3,000,000 employees globally. We dive deep to insist on the highest standards in architecture, coding, testing, deploying and maintaining every aspect of our offerings.

As an Amazon Senior Software Development Engineer, you will solve unique and complex problems at a rapid pace, utilizing the latest technologies to create solutions that are highly scalable. You will find that there is an unlimited amount of opportunities within Amazon, where developing your career across a wide range of teams is highly supported. We are committed to making your work experience as enjoyable as the experiences you’ll be creating for our customers.

If you’re thrilled by the idea of ownership, passionate about creating new applications and features 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.

Key job responsibilities
- Take ownership of software design, documentation, development, engineering approach, delivery, and support of systems built natively in AWS.
- Collaborate with leaders, work backwards from customers, identify problems, propose innovative solutions, and raise standards.
- Have a positive impact on our customers by delivering high-quality software solutions.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders on planning and communication of project deliverables.
- Participate in an on-call rotation within your team to troubleshoot and resolve defects, with ongoing communication with stakeholders and customers.
- Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve software development practices.

A day in the life
Mentorship & Career Growth: Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

Work/Life Balance: Our team also maintains inclusive team culture and we put a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success.

About the team
The core of Foundational People Data Services is to provide its customers with a secure, fast, and reliable way to store and consume worker data. Here in Data Consumer Experience (DCX) we focus on secure consumption of this data for builder teams. Our engineers use technology to solve complex problems across the Amazon ecosystem, collaborating with team members in and across teams. They have the responsibility to improve and build new tools, services, and applications. Taking a business problem from conception and designing, developing and deploying software solutions while holding a high bar for code quality and their craft, is at the heart of how they make impact. They have a responsibility to deliver on schedule using current software engineering best practices.