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Software Development Engineer, International Emerging Stores Sub-same Day

Amazon.com Inc

  • Bellevue, WA
  • 7 days ago

    Highlights

    The Sub-Same-Day (SSD) team builds the technology behind Amazon"s fastest delivery promises across India and Emerging Marketplaces - getting orders to customers in hours, not days. You"ll partner with product managers, applied scientists, and engineering teams across Promise, ATROPS, transportation, and DEX to ship features that make delivery faster and more reliable.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationBellevue, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    Description

    Do you want to shape how fast Amazon can deliver to hundreds of millions of customers? The Sub-Same-Day (SSD) team builds the technology behind Amazon"s fastest delivery promises across India and Emerging Marketplaces - getting orders to customers in hours, not days.

    We"re looking for a Software Development Engineer II who wants to own high-scale, low-latency systems that directly move the speed and reliability customers see at checkout. You"ll design and build services that compute and optimize the fastest reliable delivery promise for every order.

    • Build customer-facing systems at massive scale and single-digit-millisecond latency
    • Own features end-to-end, from design through production and operations
    • Directly impact conversion, delivery speed, and customer trust across 10+ marketplaces

    Key job responsibilities

    • Design, build, and operate scalable, low-latency, highly available services that power SSD delivery promises.
    • Own features end-to-end - requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operations.
    • Lead design discussions and independently drive alignment with partner teams (Promise, transportation, search etc. ).
    • Uphold operational excellence: monitoring, alarming, on-call, and driving down defects and tickets.
    • Dive deep on edge cases, testing, and safe production rollouts (canary deployments, metrics, dashboards).
    • Proactively identify and mitigate risks; communicate progress, blockers, and tradeoffs clearly.
    • Mentor SDE-1s and junior engineers - review code and designs, unblock them, and raise the technical bar.
    • Contribute to the team"s technical roadmap and continuous improvement of our systems.

    A day in the life

    You"ll partner with product managers, applied scientists, and engineering teams across Promise, ATROPS, transportation, and DEX to ship features that make delivery faster and more reliable. A typical day includes a team standup, design and code reviews, hands-on development, and digging into production metrics. You"ll take part in operational excellence and on-call to keep our services healthy. Beyond delivery, we invest in learning and fun - quarterly hackathons and fortnightly GenAI brown-bag sessions where the team explores new technology together.

    About the team

    The Sub-Same-Day (SSD) team owns the technology behind Amazon"s fastest delivery experiences across India and Emerging Marketplaces (AU, BR, MX, AE, SA, SG, EG, TR, ZA). Our mission is to give every customer the fastest reliable promise we can keep - and to extend same-day and sub-same-day speed to new marketplaces and customers. We"re a high-ownership, customer-obsessed team that values deep technical work, operational excellence, and continuous learning. We move fast, support each other, and celebrate wins together.

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

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