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Sr. Software Development Engineer, Global Talent Management & Compensation

Amazon

Seattle, WA
Full Time
Senior
151k-262k
10 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Global Talent Management & Compensation (GTMC) is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join a engineering team as part of a strategic investment to build technology that will enable Amazon to adopt the most scientific approach to talent 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 big data engineering, machine learning, 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. You will invent and develop a modern, mobile-first website 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 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 Responsibilities

  • Take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous HR, operational, and business problems.
  • Own and heavily influence the architecture and design of solutions.
  • Write a significant portion of the “critical-path” code.
  • Influence the team's technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to priorities and approach.
  • Contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
  • Own all aspects of solutions end-to-end through full stack software development.

Requirements

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

Nice to Have

  • 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive salary ranging from $151,300/year to $261,500/year depending on geographic location and experience.
  • Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total package.
  • Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.

Working at Amazon

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. We support workplace accommodations and adjustments during the application and onboarding process.

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Job Details

Posted AtJul 17, 2025
Salary151k-262k
Job TypeFull Time
ExperienceSenior

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