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As part of Amazon's engineering organization, you'll work on the latest technologies, collaborate with world-class engineers, and develop products and services that power one of the world's most customer-centric companies.\nOur engineers solve some of the most challenging technical problems at global scale-designing highly available distributed systems, driving architectural innovation, and delivering exceptional customer experiences. Amazon's culture of Customer Obsession, Ownership, Invent and Simplify, and Learn and Be Curious empowers engineers to innovate, take bold decisions, and make a lasting impact.\nWe are actively hiring Software Development Engineer III (SDE III) talent across multiple Amazon businesses in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, and Chennai.\nAs we continue to innovate and scale our products and services, we're looking for engineers who thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy solving ambiguous problems, and are excited to build technology that serves millions of customers globally.\nRole Overview\nAs a Software Development Engineer III, you will:\nDesign and build highly scalable, reliable, and distributed software systems.\nOwn end-to-end technical solutions, from architecture and design through development, deployment, and operational excellence.\nPartner with senior engineers, principal engineers, and technical leaders to solve complex engineering challenges.\nCollaborate with product managers, cross-functional teams, and customers to build innovative, customer-centric solutions.\nDrive technical excellence while contributing to the long-term architectural vision of the organization.\nMentor engineers and help raise the technical bar across the team.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDesign, develop, test, and deploy scalable software solutions using modern technologies.\nLead architectural discussions and influence technical strategy.\nBuild highly available and performant distributed systems.\nCollaborate across engineering, product, and business teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.\nContinuously improve system performance, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.\nMentor junior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance.\nChampion engineering best practices, quality, automation, and operational excellence.\nBasic qualifications\n- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience\n- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience\n- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience\n- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team\nPreferred qualifications\n- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience\n- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent\n- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence\n- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. 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