Sr. Software Development Engineer - Test, Digital Acceleration

Amazon Digital Acceleration powers ordering, subscriptions, and device management for Prime, Amazon Video, Music, Audible, Alexa, and Kindle services.
$151,300 - $261,500
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
8+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Sr. Software Development Engineer - Test, Digital Acceleration

Amazon Digital Acceleration (DA) is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join their elite team of Senior SDETs and Principal Engineers. This role focuses on building highly visible, robust automation tools and frameworks to tackle complex problems in digital commerce. The team manages critical systems for digital purchases across Amazon's major platforms including Prime, Kindle Unlimited, Audible, Music, and Video.

The position offers an opportunity to work on mission-critical systems that power customer's digital purchases at scale. You'll be at the forefront of ensuring reliability, scale, security, and cost efficiency through the development of self-serviceable and configurable services and tools. The role requires industry-leading technical abilities and deep knowledge of Quality Assurance and object-oriented design principles.

As a Sr. SDET, you'll lead the quality and testing culture, working across multiple teams and geographies. You'll be responsible for developing sophisticated automation frameworks that expose API defects in production code and at the component integration level. The position offers significant influence in shaping testing strategies and best practices across the organization.

The role provides exposure to high-traffic, scalable services and the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in distributed systems. You'll collaborate with various teams on complex, highly-technical projects with substantial impact. The compensation is competitive, ranging from $151,300 to $261,500 based on location, plus additional benefits and equity opportunities.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who combines technical expertise with leadership abilities, as you'll be instrumental in elevating the software quality bar across Amazon's digital acceleration initiatives. The role offers the chance to work on systems that process billions of digital purchases annually while contributing to Amazon's mission of being earth's best provider of digital commerce.

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Responsibilities For Sr. Software Development Engineer - Test, Digital Acceleration

  • Architect, design, build, and test improvements to mission critical systems
  • Define automation strategy and automation cases
  • Design tools for unit, functional, and performance testing
  • Lead quality and testing culture
  • Coach QAEs/SDETs on testing strategies and best practices
  • Collaborate with Software Development Engineers, Product Managers and TPM
  • Write code that automatically verifies product quality
  • Propose improvements to existing processes and automated tools

Requirements For Sr. Software Development Engineer - Test, Digital Acceleration

Java
  • 8+ years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
  • 5+ years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience
  • Experience programming with modern languages like 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
  • Strong background in algorithms, data structures, Java, and databases (SQL and NoSQL)
  • Ability to communicate clearly and concisely
  • Ability to quickly adapt to new development environments

Benefits For Sr. Software Development Engineer - Test, Digital Acceleration

Medical Insurance
  • Medical benefits
  • Financial benefits
  • Full range of employee benefits

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