Software Development Engineer, Tax

Would you like to work on one of the world's largest transactional distributed systems? Amazon Tax Platform Services is responsible for the tax calculation platform, providing the core services that calculate taxes (sales tax and VAT) for all Amazon sales, physical and digital, globally.

We are looking for software engineers who thrive on complex problems to operate complex and mission-critical systems under high loads. Our systems manage hundreds of millions of records, and respond to millions of service requests per minute.

• Design and develop scalable, reliable services within a high-throughput distributed tax calculation platform
• Contribute across the full software development lifecycle, including architecture, coding, code reviews, testing, deployment, and operations
• Write and maintain documentation to support technical clarity across the team
• Ensure correctness of tax calculations across Amazon's global sales channels
• Operate and monitor mission-critical systems managing hundreds of millions of records under high load
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders across Amazon's business units on new features and platform improvements
• Maintain compliance with global tax law requirements by ensuring audit records are stored accurately and securely

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

The base salary range for this position is $114,800 – $191,800 CAD annually. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D), RRSP, DPSP, paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being.