Software Development Engineer, POD Portals, Royalties, and Accounting Job at Amazon, San Luis Obispo, CA ID-8064

March 17, 2025

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Amazon has changed the way books are published, sold, and read across the globe. Independent authors and enterprise publishers are now able to publish and sell direct to readers through Kindle and print-on-demand (POD) offerings, enabling them to reach audiences never before available. POD offers always in-stock for any title with print facilities worldwide and leveraging Amazon fulfillment services. Come be a part of changing the way the world reads by leading technology for POD.

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We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II to own our Print-on-Demand (POD) technology for Kindle Enterprise Publishing (KEP) and Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) customers, including the front end user experience, backend lifecycle and metadata management systems for account and book information, royalty calculation systems, and accounting technology associated with POD.

Key job responsibilities
As an SDE II, you will invent, design, and build technology across the entire book publishing process. As a full stack engineer on the POD Portals, Royalties and Accounting team you will take on challenges in the KDP and KEP business spaces, from individual or bulk title ingestion, through book validation and publishing lifecycle, royalty calculation for POD orders, the end user reporting and viewing experience, and the accounting integration to report on business finances. You are expected to raise the high quality bar required to earn customer trust in these critical systems, and are expected to mentor the team and help shape team process improvements to ensure that long term health of the software is maintained.

About the team
Our team builds the end-to-end services required to ensure that books never go out-of-stock, enabling the printing and shipping of books immediately after orders are placed. We strive to provide an experience that is powerful, yet simple to use and accessible to all. This role will help design and engineer the future of the book industry. We focus on building tools that enable publishers to publish high quality paperback and hardcover books, reaching readers all around the world. By providing an excellent set of tools for our publishers we will help their works reach more readers.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Experience as a mentor or tech lead

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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