Amazon's Payroll Technology organization is building the future of payroll processing at unprecedented scale — serving over 1.7 million employees across 50+ countries. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II to join our Payroll Integrations team and help design, build, and operate mission-critical systems that ensure every Amazonian gets paid accurately and on time.
As an SDE II on this team, you will own end-to-end delivery of distributed systems that process and orchestrate employee payroll data across multiple upstream and downstream systems. You'll work on high-throughput data pipelines, configuration-driven integration frameworks, and automation solutions that reduce manual effort and improve payroll accuracy at global scale. Your work will directly impact the employee experience for over a million people worldwide.
Key job responsibilities
What You'll Do
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, highly available services that power 65+ payroll integrations across multiple countries and vendors
• Build and optimize data pipelines that process employee lifecycle events — from new hires to terminations — ensuring timely and accurate data delivery to payroll systems
• Drive technical design decisions, author design documents, and collaborate with Principal Engineers and cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects
• Own operational excellence for production systems, including monitoring, alarming, on-call support, and continuous improvement of system reliability
• Identify and resolve ambiguous problems, propose innovative solutions, and raise the bar on engineering quality across the team
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and knowledge sharing
- 3+ years of non-internship skilled software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting titl