Sr. Software Development Engineer, Payroll Tech
Amazon · Hyderabad, India · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Hyderabad, India. The posting calls out experience with AWS, CI/CD, Distributed Systems, Microservices. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Hyderabad, India
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Mar 12, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersPayroll Tech acts as a tech partner to Amazon's Payroll organization and is developing first-of-its-kind 1P systems to streamline payroll processing and deliver an excellent pay experience to Amazonians. We are on a mission to build fully integrated, near-touchless payroll systems that ensure accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing for Amazonians across the globe. The 2-pizza team you would join is focused on building systems to track and monitor that Amazonians are paid on time, accurately, and in compliance with regulations applicable to their country or state. We are looking for a passionate and experienced Software Development Engineer III (L6) with deep technical expertise, strong leadership skills, and the ability to hit the ground running. In this role, you will be the technical leader responsible for service design, development, and operations. You will brainstorm new ideas and work on forward looking architectures and design with other Senior Software Engineers. You will architect, analyze, design, develop, test, and deploy software features and fix defects. You will participate and lead in sprint planning and daily scrum, break down technical work, identify technical blockers, and navigate solutions. You will also mentor junior team members. You will partner with your managers, other technical leaders…