Software Development Engineer II, Employee Onboarding and Administration, Personal Information Domain (PID) Platform Team

Amazon is hiring thousands of workers every week across 60+ countries. The Work Authorization team ensures that all employees hired (into all lines of business, globally) are legally authorized to work and remain authorized to work throughout their employment. We are building a system to streamline the work authorization determination process by eliminating manual interventions (where legally permissible) without compromising compliance. This solution will include building dedicated web applications to satisfy legal requirements specific to each country or region
As a Software Developer you will have direct influence on this greenfield project by designing and implementing highly scalable solutions and applying technology to optimize business problems.
As a Software Development Engineer, you will take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous HR, operational, and business problems. You will own and heavily influence the architecture and design, and will write a significant portion of the “critical-path” code. You will influence the team’s technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to priorities and approach. You contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operations. You are empowered to own all aspects of solutions end-to-end through full stack software development. Successful candidates are strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivering large scale solutions.

Key job responsibilities
The Personal Information Domain's (PID) Data Platform and Identity Management team is seeking a Software Development Engineer II with a passion for building full-stack enterprise solutions using cloud technologies. The team owns both customer-facing experiences and back-end services to enable Personal Information management across Amazon globally, and facilitation of key processes required to setup and manage profiles and identities during pre-boarding. From pre-boarding to alumni, all Amazonians globally will interact with the products the Personal Information Domain builds and maintains.

As a SDE II on the team, you will own the design, build, and maintenance of data platform services and the HR admin experience for personal data management. You will own and enhance services that perform duplicate detection, login and identity creation, profile management and automation of several critical services for successful pre-boarding. A successful SDE II will have a broad array of experiences, exceptional design skills, strong technical judgement, an excellent ability to solve problems, good communication skills and a desire to be a key technical contributor. The software you write will impact millions of Amazonians globally, and will require a breadth of technical development knowledge. Daily work will involve interacting with engineers, product managers, SDMs and stakeholders.

A day in the life
On a daily basis, we are designing and implementing new features, enhancements, and problem solving complex issues that often require cross-team collaboration and a holistic business process understanding. We are the customer too! Our team is building products that we also use and benefit from. In daily conversations with Product Managers, we advocate for, and invent solutions to improve the customer experience. What we do affects everyone at Amazon. We move fast! Our team focuses on prioritization and fast decision making to deliver for the customer without sacrificing good engineering practices.

About the team
We are seeking experienced engineers with strong ownership. You will own and lead projects that impact new joiner Amazonians around the globe. Amazon business’ success depends on your ability to innovate and enable onboarding speed, accuracy and success. If you’re thrilled by the idea of ownership, passionate about creating new features and services from scratch, and comfortable with the pace of shipping software in incremental cycles measured in weeks, we would love to connect with you.