System Development Engineer

Join Amazon's Author Support Technology team as a Software Development Engineer and play a crucial role in revolutionizing the self-publishing industry. This position offers an exciting opportunity to build scalable solutions that directly impact authors' success on Amazon's publishing platform. You'll be working on complex technical challenges at Amazon's scale, designing and implementing multi-tenant services that power the author support ecosystem.

The role combines technical leadership with hands-on development, requiring expertise in modern programming languages and large-scale infrastructure. You'll be responsible for driving architectural decisions, mentoring junior engineers, and delivering end-to-end technical initiatives. The position demands strong collaboration skills as you'll work directly with internal users to understand pain points and craft efficient solutions.

As part of Amazon's publishing platform team, you'll help shape the future of self-publishing by building automation tools and streamlining author support workflows. This role offers the unique opportunity to see the direct impact of your work on authors worldwide while working with cutting-edge technologies and distributed systems at scale.

The ideal candidate should have experience with CI/CD pipelines, Linux/Unix environments, and programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, or Java. You'll be working in Chennai, India, contributing to Amazon's mission of empowering authors and revolutionizing the publishing industry. This role offers the perfect blend of technical challenges, leadership opportunities, and meaningful impact on the global publishing ecosystem.