Sr. Software Development Engineer - Test, Digital Acceleration

Amazon Digital Acceleration (DA) is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our team of Senior SDET’s and Principle Engineers in building highly visible, robust automation tools and framework to tackle hard to solve problems. DA enables Amazon device and subscription 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.

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 subscriptions at Amazon. The Digital commerce team handles complexities of managing all digital subscriptions across Amazon, including Amazon Prime, Kindle Unlimited, Audible, Music, and Video, using the latest in high-availability services and distributed systems.

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 are key competencies.
- 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
As a QA champion on the engineering team, you will get the opportunity to own major deliverable at all phases of the development cycle: scoping, design, coding and testing using an agile process. You'll write and implement test plans that root out bugs and design flaws in our systems so that we can resolve them before they make it to production. You’ll build frameworks that allow the team to write reliable, targeted, and extensible tests to support a fast-growing feature set in our Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). You'll have an opportunity to work with other teams throughout Amazon to flesh out cross-team requirements and designs. You'll also put your experience, expertise, and creativity to work in determining/recommending the best designs based on business objective, timeline, and resource constraints.

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

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
- 3+ 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.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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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 t