Do you like building systems that process hundreds of billions of requests in a day in scalable, consistent way all while delighting customers? Do you have a passion for making developers more productive? Then join AmazonAPI!
The mission of AmazonAPI is to accelerate the Amazon.com shopping experience by making core shopping data accessible to teams through a single consistent REST endpoint. We own client libraries (in Java and TypeScript, for IOS and Android) used by 3500+ client teams for retrieving data, the Contracts Domain Specific Language used to define APIs, and backend integrations to connect 200+ services with specific business logic. We work with data owners across Amazon to standardize shopping data where necessary, allowing developers to easily build new shopping experiences without worrying about gathering data from multiple sources.
As an engineer on AmazonAPI, you will be be a key technical advocate for partner teams as they integrate and use our platform. You will contribute to the design and development of the end-to-end developer experience. You will work with senior leaders across Amazon, finding solutions to multi-dimensional problems and driving a consistent platform experience across the different parts of the AmazonAPI product suite.
Key job responsibilities
- Be a key contributor to our team strategy and roadmap.
- Be responsible for developing a deep understanding of the needs and challenges facing the diverse set of data owners who build on the Amazon.com website today.
- Work cross-functionally with many other engineering teams, and partner developers to design and implement solutions that delight our customers.
About the team
AmazonAPI's mission is to be the data plane for the Store website. Our goal is to be the one stop shop for any team's store data needs at Amazon. This means we provide APIs for all different types of data such as product data, customer data, deals data, etc.. Our service's traffic has doubled every year and it processes millions of transactions every second. We work on problems like providing high quality developer centric APIs, enhancing API discoverability, building strongly typed client libraries, and improving the developer experience.
