Do you want challenge yourself to work on a team with high impact, complexity, and critical availability? Payments may be what you are looking for! Global Payments Tech supports dozens of countries, payment methods, and serves billions of requests daily.

We build systems that 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, 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.

Key job responsibilities
Define, design, and implement highly available multi-tier distributed software applications.

Own the validation and rollout of complex features in Tier1 production systems, while meeting strict requirements for latency, availability, and scalability.

Must be able to effectively collaborate in a fast paced environment with multiple teams in a large organization.

Contribute to the long term architectural evolution of core payments services, though both internal designs, and aligning away team work with long term platform vision.

Provide Tier1 on-call production support for payment platform services.

Drive AI adoption and efficiencies across all steps of the development lifecycle.

A day in the life
You will design, build, and improve the backend services that support Amazon’s payment platform. Your work will focus on writing/reviewing code, reviewing designs, and contributing to the evolution of the three Tier1 services owned by the team.

You will collaborate with engineers, product partners, and client/dependency teams to understand requirements, clarify edge cases, and ensure new features behave predictably across systems. You will participate in standups, design reviews, and code reviews, gaining exposure to the operation of large‑scale distributed systems.

You will refine components of the system architecture, simplify interfaces, and improve the performance and reliability of critical payment systems. As part of the team’s operational rotation, you will monitor service health, investigate issues, and learn the practices required to maintain high‑availability systems. On‑call responsibilities are shared across the team, with support provided as you build the skills needed to diagnose and resolve production issues.

About the team
Payment Methods Team sits within Amazon’s Global Payments Tech organization which serves as a central technology group for enabling payments across Amazon businesses. PMT owns three Tier 1 platform services used by retail checkout, subscriptions, and other digital services to enable highly salable and reliable payments for customers. Our services are invoked dozens of times for every Amazon checkout session worldwide, handling billions of requests a day.

Our team prides itself on raising the bar on operational excellence, availability, and an engaging team culture.

Where will you be challenged? Scalability, latency and availability requirements, and architectural complexity.