Role at a glance
- Salary
- $168.1K – $227.4K/yr
- Location
- Seattle, Washington, United States
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment
- Internship
- Experience
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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Role Summary
The Lead Engineer will own the technical vision and delivery of AWS's Tax Profile platform, a system of record for customer entity identity, tax registration, and multi-jurisdiction compliance configuration. The role will transform the platform into a scalable, multi-tenant service for complex enterprise customers and partner with product, tax compliance, and dependent platform teams to support billing and international expansion.
What You'll Do
- Own the system design and long-term technical vision for Tax Profile.
- Design and deliver multi-tax-registration management, jurisdiction-specific document collection and validation, and entity resolution...
- Build scalable APIs and data models that enable downstream services to consume Tax Profile as a platform.
- Partner with Control Plane, Invoice Configuration, Tax Calculation, and Marketplace teams to define interfaces and resolve dependency...
- Establish technical standards including code quality, operational readiness, testing strategy, and scalability patterns, while mentoring...
- Own operational metrics, on-call excellence, and incident response for a high-availability, low-latency billing system.
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Required
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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Key job responsibilities
- **Technical leadership and architecture**: Own the system design and long-term technical vision for Tax Profile, evolving it from single-entity storage to a multi-persona, multi-jurisdiction platform supporting complex enterprise configurations.
- **Multi-jurisdiction capability delivery**: Design and deliver features for multi-tax-registration management, jurisdiction-specific document collection and validation, and entity resolution logic that scales across regulatory regimes.
- **Platform abstraction design**: Build scalable APIs and data models that decouple tax identity management from specific tenants or use cases—enabling downstream services (tax calculation, invoicing, e-invoicing, control plane) to consume Tax Profile as a platform.
- **Cross-team technical integration**: Partner with Control Plane, Invoice Configuration, Tax Calculation, and Marketplace teams to define interfaces, resolve dependency bottlenecks, and ensure Tax Profile capabilities ship ahead of downstream consumers' timelines.
- **Enterprise customer unblock**: Deliver capabilities that directly address complex billing requirements for strategic enterprise customers with multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction tax obligations.
- **Engineering excellence**: Establish technical standards for the team including code quality, operational readiness, testing strategy, and scalability patterns. Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar.
- **Operational ownership**: Ensure Tax Profile operates with high availability and low-latency at scale, owning operational metrics, on-call excellence, and incident response for a system that sits in the critical path of billing.
- **Technical debt reduction**: Identify and systematically retire country-specific implementations in favor of generalized, configurable solutions that reduce per-country engineering effort.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
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Amazon is a global leader in e-commerce and cloud computing, founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos. Initially starting as an online bookstore, it has since expanded its offerings to include a vast range of products and services, including electronics, fashion, and digital content. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company also provides powerful cloud solutions to businesses around the world. Known for its innovation, customer-centric approach, and commitment to operational efficiency, Amazon continues to shape the future of retail and technology, consistently seeking new ways to enhance customer experiences.
Amazon is a global leader in e-commerce and cloud computing, founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos. Initially starting as an online bookstore, it has since expanded its offerings to include a vast range of products and services, including electronics, fashion, and digital content. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company also provides powerful cloud solutions to businesses around the world. Known for its innovation, customer-centric approach, and commitment to operational efficiency, Amazon continues to shape the future of retail and technology, consistently seeking new ways to enhance customer experiences.