The AWS Commerce Platform - Price List API team is looking for a Software Development Engineer (SDE) to join our team in Berlin.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer, you will contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle, including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operations. You will push your design and architecture limits by owning all aspects of solutions end-to-end. Taking pride in both the technical and business contribution of your work, you will be given the chance to have a significant impact on our systems, our business and our customers. You will design and implement new features, and be part of a team that is building the future of the cloud.
A day in the life
* Help define the system architecture, own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall experience.
* Own and operate the systems that you build, based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements.
* Collaborate closely with Product Managers, and Software Development Engineers on the same team to help define the scope of the product.
* Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as a member of an autonomous team.
* Take responsibility for technical problem-solving, creatively meeting product goals, and developing best practices.
* Write high-quality, efficient, testable code in Java, Kotlin, Python and TypeScript.
* Design Amazon scale tools to facilitate internal business.
* Build highly available, secure systems that deal with confidential billing data.
* Mentor and support the growth of other developers.
* Find out what it takes to engineer systems for "Amazon Scale".
About the team
AWS Commerce Platform (CP) provides the back- and front-end services that enable AWS Service teams to sell to AWS customers, as well as allowing AWS customers to purchase AWS Services and to understand and manage their infrastructure costs. Because we sit at the nexus of all AWS Services and end-customers, we work closely across all AWS teams to ensure that we offer a great customer experience.
The Price List API serves a critical need of our customers—knowing the cost of AWS products. It publishes prices which are legally binding source of public pricing truth for several customers and stakeholders and is used both by AWS customers and AWS-internal teams. The Price List API team owns two public AWS APIs: the AWS Price List Query API and the AWS Price List Bulk API which serve millions of requests daily.
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
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Work/Life Balance
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We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Berlin, BE, DEU
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
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