Software Dev Engineer II, Checkout Platform
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Amazon’s Checkout Platform team builds services and frameworks powering checkout experiences across Amazon retail websites. The Software Development Engineer will build multi-tiered, low-latency, resilient distributed systems and solutions that process large volumes of data and improve checkout speed and simplicity. The ideal candidate brings technical design, problem-solving, and communication skills, works from a customer perspective, and interacts with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Description
The Amazon Checkout Platform team seeks a creative software development engineer who treats software development as a craft, cares deeply about our customers, and takes great pride in both the technical and business contributions of their work. We are a team building services and frameworks that power the mission critical Checkout experience on Amazon retail websites world-wide. This platform is used by thousands of developers across the company to delight hundreds of millions of customers across the world with innovative checkout experiences.
We offer you the opportunity to build multi-tiered, low latency, highly resilient distributed systems at scale. You will play a leading role in building solutions that make a huge, measurable impact to the shopping experience. You will build solutions that can process large volumes of data, have lightning quick response times and make the checkout process ridiculously fast and simple.
The ideal candidate will have excellent technical design, problem solving and communication skills and be comfortable interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels. In addition, the ability to work backwards and think from a customer perspective is crucial.
Basic Qualifications
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3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
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2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
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1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
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1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
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1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
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Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
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Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications
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3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
How this job compares
Set against the 1,328 open Software Development Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$144–194K/yr
- Washington median$144–194K/yr441 salary ranges
- US median$144–194K/yr1,213 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $169K, is close to the Washington median midpoint ($169K) — in the middle half of Software Development Engineer salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 447 open Software Development Engineer jobs in Washington and 1,328 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Software Development Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (1,185 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 591 of the 1,328 open Software Development Engineer jobs (45%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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