Software Development Engineer, Amazon Tax

Amazon Tax Platform Services is seeking a Software Development Engineer to work on one of the world's largest transactional distributed systems. The role involves building and maintaining the tax calculation platform that handles tax computations for all Amazon sales globally, both physical and digital. The team is responsible for ensuring accurate tax calculations at order time and maintaining audit records to meet global tax law requirements.

The position requires expertise in handling complex problems and operating mission-critical systems under extreme loads. The systems manage hundreds of millions of records and process millions of service requests per minute. The successful candidate will contribute to all aspects of software development including design, development, documentation, testing and operations.

Working in a Java, Linux and Oracle-based environment, you'll be part of a team that stays current with complex and evolving global tax rates and laws while ensuring accurate and rapid calculations. This is an opportunity to work with customers and peers across Amazon's entire business range while developing new features for a critical financial system.

The role offers exposure to large-scale distributed systems, complex business logic implementation, and the challenge of maintaining high performance under significant load. You'll be working in a dynamic environment where accuracy and reliability are paramount, while dealing with the complexities of international tax regulations and high-volume transaction processing.