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Amazon Sr. Software Development Engineer - Test, Digital Acceleration in Bellevue, Washington
Description
Amazon Digital Acceleration (DA) is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our team of Senior SDET’s and Principal Engineers in building highly visible, robust automation tools and framework to tackle hard to solve problems. DA enables Amazon’s digital businesses to innovate faster and deliver more for customers while ensuring reliability, scale, security and cost efficiency by building services and tools that are self-serviceable and configurable. Our team handles complexities of managing digital purchases across Amazon, including Amazon Prime, Kindle Unlimited, Audible, Music, and Video, using the latest in high-availability services and distributed systems.
We are looking for a Sr. SDET (Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test) to help architect, design, build, and test improvements to mission critical systems that power customer’s digital purchases (eg subscriptions) at Amazon. You are expected to have industry-leading technical abilities that enable you to significantly improve product quality. You should have a combination of solid in-depth knowledge of Quality Assurance, solid understanding of the operating system software, as well as knowledge of object-oriented design principles. The software you will build should expose API defects in production level code as well as defects at the component and feature integration perspective. You should command the skill to communicate clearly and effectively. Candidates will need to define automation strategy, automation cases as well as design tools for unit, functional, and performance testing in a programmatic manner. In addition, you will also have the opportunity to propose improvements to our existing processes and automated tools in order to improve the team’s speed, quality and efficiency.
Key job responsibilities
To be successful in this position you will have:
A strong background in algorithms, data structures, Java, and databases both SQL and NoSQL
The ability to communicate clearly and concisely (both written and orally) and work well in a team across geographies
You should be able to quickly adapt to new development environments, learn new systems, create reliable and maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems
Experience working with high-traffic, scalable services is a plus
A day in the life
You will have a unique and challenging role that provides the opportunity to drive the test strategy in one or more areas within Digital Acceleration (DA). You will lead our quality and testing culture, and evangelize the processes and strategies that you will set and define to multiple teams across our organization. Your influence will extend beyond coaching QAEs/SDETs on the testing strategies and best practices, as we expect you to work with Software Development Engineers, Product Managers and TPM. You will coach and support teams to define their own tactics to elevate their software quality bar. You’ll be writing code that automatically verifies the quality of the product. You will collaborate with several teams on the planning and execution of complex and highly-technical projects with high impact and visibility.
About the team
Amazon Digital Acceleration powers ordering, subscriptions, and device management for Prime, Amazon Video, Music, Audible, Alexa, and Kindle, amongst other digital businesses. We process billions of digital purchases every year and enable our digital businesses to grow their businesses worldwide. We are on a mission to be earth's best provider of one-time and recurring digital commerce, delivering a seamless and enjoyable post-purchase customer experience.
Basic Qualifications
8+ years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
5+ years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
Experience in penetration testing and exploitability-focused vulnerability assessment
Experience in platform-level security mitigations and hardening for Linux and Windows
Preferred Qualifications
Deep hands-on technical expertise
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong business and technical vision
Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of shipping software on time
A solid understanding of best practices and techniques regarding web, performance, and security.
Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective and productive software engineers.
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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.