We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented Software Development Engineer who has experience building mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an opportunity to make an enormous impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used everyday by people you know.

Key job responsibilities
- You will provide technical leadership to our engineering team and work closely with engineering and product leaders to deliver solutions to our customers.
- You will assist in solving ambiguous business problems by mapping them to elegant technical solutions.
- You will use object-oriented concepts, algorithms and data structures to build and future-proof systems at Amazon scale.
- You will design, launch, and re-architect multi-tier distributed systems with large amounts of data.
- You will quickly adapt to a fast-paced development environment with bias towards simple and extensible code.
- You will provide mentorship and guidance for peers on their journeys at Amazon.

About the team
Amazon’s Personalization organization is an impactful, high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, and distributed systems to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. You may already be familiar with features such as “Customers Who Bought Also Bought” and “Recommended for You” - that's Personalization! Our team owns a foundational backend system within the Personalization ecosystem. Our team’s culture is centered on rapid prototyping, experimentation, and data-driven decision-making, as we deliver essential changes for the service we operate; ranging from new business functionality, re-architecting software components, and optimizing code. We care deeply about our customers, as well as the well-being and growth of our team members. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow. This is a track record we are proud of and will continue to uphold. We are looking for creative and innovative engineers with a similar penchant for deeply-technical problem solving and the ability to run engineering projects, mentor peers, and deliver while upholding Amazon’s leadership principles.