The Software Development Engineer II role on the Sub-Same-Day (SSD) team at Amazon focuses on building technology for fast delivery across India and Emerging Marketplaces. The team aims to optimize delivery promises, ensuring orders reach customers in hours rather than days. This position involves designing and operating scalable, low-latency services that enhance customer trust and delivery speed. The role also emphasizes collaboration with various teams and continuous improvement of systems.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, or distributed software applications
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience

• Design, build, and operate scalable, low-latency, highly available services that power SSD delivery promises.
• Own features end-to-end, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operations.
• Lead design discussions and drive alignment with partner teams.
• Uphold operational excellence through monitoring, alarming, and driving down defects.
• Dive deep on edge cases, testing, and safe production rollouts.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks while communicating progress and blockers.
• Mentor junior engineers by reviewing code and designs and raising the technical bar.
• Contribute to the team's technical roadmap and continuous improvement of systems.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.