Amazon is one of the largest employers on the planet with hundreds of thousands of employees across the globe. Come join us in our journey to deliver solutions for one of the most complex domains in People eXperience Technology (PXT). We own and deliver technology to manage employee time expectations and compute their pay, globally, for all our current and emerging businesses. At the core, we are in the business of analytics — real-time and event-driven — of data collected from IoT devices (time clocks) and web user interfaces. We own our own high-availability services to support this processing, and require the ability to work from replay-able, auditable "truth" for any point in an employee's timeline. Our business rules are complex and arcane, varying by role, business, and jurisdiction. We are solving all these problems at Amazon scale, an order of magnitude larger than supported by any commodity solutions and growing exponentially.
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II who is a strong, independent builder with growing design maturity. You take ownership of significant features and components, drive them from design through production, and operate them with high standards. You write high-quality code, make sound technical decisions with appropriate trade-offs, and proactively improve the systems you touch. You are developing your ability to influence design direction, mentor junior engineers, and think beyond your immediate deliverables to the health of the broader system.
Key job responsibilities
A day in the life
You start the day reviewing a design you wrote for a new feature in the compliance system — incorporating feedback from a senior engineer on edge cases around jurisdiction-specific rules. You update the design, get alignment, and start building. Mid-morning, you review a code change from a junior engineer, leaving constructive feedback on error handling and test coverage. After lunch, you investigate a latency spike in one of your services — tracing requests through logs and metrics, identifying a downstream throttling issue, and implementing a retry optimization. You join a design review for a cross-team project, asking questions about failure modes and proposing an alternative caching approach. You close the day deploying your feature to a pre-production environment, validating metrics, and updating the team on progress in standup.
About the team
We are part of Time and Attendance (TAA) within People eXperience Technology (PXT). Our team builds and operates the technology that powers how Amazon tracks, manages, and compensates employee time — globally, across all business lines and geographies.
We own the full technology stack across several critical verticals:
Punch Collection & Processing — Real-time ingestion and processing of punch events from IoT devices and web interfaces through a high-throughput, event-driven serverless architecture.
Attendance — Tracking actual associate work against planned schedules to ensure accurate time records across all business lines.
Scheduling & Schedule Builder — Enabling Operations to plan, build, and manage employee schedules and labor allocation. Scheduling bridges labor planning and pay generation, determining which shifts a site needs and which employees fill them.
Compliance — Enforcing complex, jurisdiction-specific business rules around worked hours, meal and rest break policies, and labor law requirements that vary by role, business, and country.
Our systems operate at a scale an order of magnitude larger than any off-the-shelf solution — and they are growing exponentially. The domain is uniquely challenging: business rules are complex and arcane, data must be replay-able and auditable for any point in an employee's timeline, and every decision we make directly affects how people get paid. If you want to own real systems, grow your design skills, and build toward technical leadership, this is the team.
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USA, WA, Bellevue - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
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