This role is expected to sit in NYC (JFK27 building).
Talent Advancement(TA) in Global Talent Management & Compensation (GTMC) is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join engineering team based on the East Coast of the United States (New York City, NY) as part of a strategic investment to build technology that will enable Amazon to adopt the most scientific approach to career advancement. GTMC builds intelligent products and services that offer a consumer grade user experience and use science to manage talent development at Amazon by embracing our leadership principles culture. Our engineering teams include Gen AI, micro-service software development, front-end software development, and user experience design. In GTMC we are building the intelligence that will enable Amazon to retain its unique “Day One” company culture whilst growing its talent base in excess of 1 Million employees.

As a Software Developer you will join a team of engineers responsible for the development of our product and services that implement our 3 year vision and operation planning (OP1). You will invent and develop Customer friendly experience and services using AWS technologies. Are you passionate about developing website architectures that scale and perform at high availability using AWS technologies? Do you have the customer obsession to build a highly available website experience to hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees? Come invent with us! You will help to hire and develop the best within our engineering team by mentoring and guiding the engineers with best practices and insisting on high standards.

You will join our community of engineers and contribute to defining and raising technical standards across the GTMC organization. You will work on Amazon’s hardest problems. You will exert technical vision and will build highly scalable, architecturally sound solutions that are aligned with our business needs. You will possess a unique blend of technical breadth and depth, paired with excellent communication and collaboration skills.




Key job responsibilities
SDE 3s lead their team’s software development, often working with peers on related teams. They deliver working software systems consisting of multiple features spanning the full software lifecycle including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance strategy. The problems they solve do not start with a defined technology strategy, and often have conflicting constraints. While they often do not design every feature themselves, they review others’ work to ensure it fits into the bigger picture and is well designed, extensible, performant, and secure.
SDE 3s’ code contributions demonstrate best practices, which others emulate, and continue to be high-quality. They take on projects where the business direction is understood, but the technology strategy is not. They balance constraints, limiting short-term workarounds and focusing on future extension.
SDE 3s are beginning to solve problems through the use of non-technical solutions such as process improvement, culture changes, or staffing and training. They ensure that their team has good operational practices with the correct alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and retrospective/COE processes. When disagreements arise, they lead inclusive, constructive dialog with team members and related teams. They ensure their team grows by training, recruiting, assessing, and providing career guidance to members of their team. SDE 3 will also be part of oncall.


- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.