Software Development Engineer, Time & Pay Innovation

Join Amazon's People eXperience Technology (PXT) team to deliver solutions for complex global domains. Your code will determine how Amazon associates get paid accurately and on time every single day. You will own and deliver features across a critical real-time platform with a high-throughput, event-driven architecture.

What you'll do

• Own and deliver features across a critical real-time platform
• Build high-throughput, event-driven architecture systems
• Develop solutions for the People eXperience Technology domain

What they ask for

• Experience as a Software Development Engineer

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Technical

1. How would you design a high-throughput, event-driven payroll processing system?
2. Explain how you ensure consistency and accuracy in distributed payment transactions.
3. What are the challenges of scaling real-time event-driven architectures?

Scenario

1. What would you do if a critical bug in the payroll system delayed processing for thousands of employees?
2. How would you handle a sudden spike in event traffic during peak payroll cycles?

HR

1. Tell me about a time you owned a complex technical project from conception to delivery.
2. How do you prioritize features and handle trade-offs under tight deadlines?

About Amazon

1. How does Amazon's People eXperience Technology impact the daily operations of its massive global workforce?

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