The Amazon Payments supports multiple payment products and processes millions of transactions every day across numerous countries and payment methods. Over 100 million customers and merchants send tens of billions of dollars moving at light-speed through our systems annually, and use our products on and off Amazon.
We build systems that provide various payments features and process payments at an unprecedented scale, with accuracy, speed, and mission-critical availability. We innovate to improve customer experience across the globe, with support for currency choice, pay using installments, pay with reward points, in-store payments, pay on delivery, credit and debit payments, seller disbursements, gift cards, and many new exciting and challenging ideas are in the works.
If you are excited about the opportunity to learn and work on large scale distributed systems, enjoy trouble shooting and solving complex problems, consider the opportunities at the Bangalore center. Come challenge yourself in our team-oriented atmosphere, and watch yourself grow with one of the fastest growing areas of the Amazon e-commerce product and services platform.


Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:

1. Problem Solving and Solution Design:

Identify and solve ambiguous problems, architectural deficiencies, or areas where your team's systems hinder the innovation of other teams.
Design and deliver pragmatic, efficient, and cost-effective technology solutions to address complex business problems.
Make appropriate trade-offs and re-use or extend prior work where possible.
Thoroughly test your work and ensure clear, accurate, and concise documentation.

1. Strategic Contribution and Influence:

Participate in strategic planning and decision-making with customers, partner teams, and peers.
Work backwards from the customer experience, balancing customer requirements with team requirements and influencing your team's goals and programs.
Participate in your organization's Operational Planning process.
Actively review your team's technology solutions and operations.

2. Team Mentorship and Development:

Train new teammates, helping them understand your team's customers, systems, and processes.
Participate in hiring and developing others, and effectively mentor team members within your organization.

3. Operational Excellence:

Deeply understand your team's systems and thoroughly diagnose problems in all aspects of operations, including hardware, software, and operating environments.
Resolve the root cause of difficult performance, reliability, or availability issues and deliver innovative solutions.
Learn how your team's components behave as part of the larger organizational system and analyze systems to identify operational risks at the product or service level.
Participate in design, operations, and post-incident reviews to identify risks to resilience and deliver projects that mitigate those risks.
Improve operational excellence across teams and provide guidance to peers outside your own team.



A day in the life
L5 System Development Engineer II will be responsible for designing and delivering innovative technology solutions that address complex business problems. L5 Sysdev will a) work autonomously, with the ability to seek direction from peers and managers when needed. b) will consider the long-term implications of the systems you build, ensuring they are scalable, efficient, and cost-effective. c) will be a trusted technical contributor, participating in strategic planning and decision-making with customers, partner teams, and peers.