Are you an innovative and accomplished professional seeking for a role with a significant impact and growth? Amazon is looking for a dynamic Software Development Engineer to join our core team in the Books org with a focus on AbeBooks automation and modernization initiatives.
In this role, you will scope complex projects and deliver easy, elegant solutions by collecting product and business requirements, driving the development schedule from design to release, making appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-market, and clearly communicating goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional teams. You will interact with a broad cross-section of the Amazon organization, clarify ambiguous issues, and negotiate effective technical solutions between development and business teams. You will anticipate bottlenecks and escalate issues when required to ensure on-time delivery. This role requires a seasoned individual with excellent experience as a Software Development Engineer and the ability to guide high-level technical design.





If you are excited about solving complex problems, working across diverse teams, and driving operational excellence at a global scale, we’d love to hear from you

Key job responsibilities
• Build and improve automations that reduce manual effort and modernize existing systems and workflows.
• Continuously improve existing systems, focusing on test coverage, refactoring, and reducing technical debt.
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies to solve complex operational challenges.
• Deliver features with agility, contributing to a highly collaborative and innovative team environment.
• Deliver and build software at high bar with respect to quality, security, architecture, scalability and operational excellence.
• Build systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Ability to identify the root cause of

📌 Software Development Engineer II (Chennai)
🏢 Amazon
📍 Chennai