Software Development Engineer – Amazon – Vancouver, BC

Vancouver’s tech scene has a new opportunity worth exploring. Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC is hiring a Software Development Engineer to join the Selling Partner Financial Technology team in Vancouver, BC. This is a role for engineers who think big, move fast, and want their work to genuinely matter at a global scale.

This position sits at the intersection of distributed systems, financial technology, and large-scale software architecture. You’ll be working alongside experienced, cross-disciplinary engineers to design and ship solutions that affect millions of sellers and customers around the world. If you’re drawn to complexity and want to see the direct impact of your code, this is worth your attention.

About the Role: Software Development Engineer

As an SDE on the Selling Partner Financial Technology team, you’ll be involved in conceiving, designing, and building innovative products and services from the ground up. The work spans distributed computing, fault-tolerant storage systems, and predictive solutions — all operating at incredible scale and speed. Development cycles here are measured in weeks, not years, so you’ll need to be comfortable navigating ambiguity while delivering high-quality results.

You’ll work in an agile development environment with clear expectations around code quality, collaboration, and ownership. Amazon’s engineering culture places a high value on customer obsession, which means the solutions you build will always be anchored to real-world impact. Whether you’re architecting a new system or refining an existing one, the emphasis is on reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

Benefits and Salary

The base salary range for this position is $114,800 to $191,800 CAD annually for the Vancouver location. Total compensation may also include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs), with final compensation determined by experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, and basic life & AD&D), a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), a Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and additional resources to support health and well-being.

Responsibilities

Day to day, you’ll be designing and building systems that need to perform reliably at massive scale. These aren’t isolated tasks — they require close collaboration, thoughtful architecture decisions, and a willingness to take ownership from concept through to production. Here’s what that looks like in practice:

• Collaborate with experienced, cross-disciplinary engineers to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market
• Design and build innovative technologies within a large distributed computing environment, helping lead fundamental changes in the industry
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to cutting-edge technologies at incredible scale and speed
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and straightforward to manage and use
• Design and code the right solutions starting from broadly defined problems, exercising strong judgement throughout
• Deliver high-quality software consistently within an agile development environment

Requirements / Skills

Amazon is looking for engineers who are genuinely passionate about building new products from scratch and are comfortable working through ambiguity. The ideal candidate brings both hands-on coding experience and a solid understanding of system design and architecture at scale.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience in a production environment
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience covering design patterns, reliability, and scaling of new and existing systems
• Proficiency in at least one software programming language used in professional development
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations (preferred)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent (preferred)

How to Apply

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