Software Engineer, Translation Services

Translation Services seeks a passionate Software Development Engineer to drive innovations in translation to reach every Amazon customer in their own language.


Are you passionate about creating high-performance, large-scale language translation services to support Amazons current and future growth? Do you thrive in environments where you can lead innovation? If so, were seeking a software engineer to join the Translation Services (TS) team.

TS provides technology solutions and services that deliver quality translations at the lowest possible cost for Amazon businesses. As a Software Development Engineer, youll help drive efforts to build translations solutions at Amazon scale with 100% translations coverage, eventually making translations a no-op for developers so that they can focus on business logic and application building.

Were seeking a self-starting individual comfortable with ambiguity, possessing strong attention to detail, and dedicated to ensuring that secondary language experiences match the excellence of primary language experiences, even at Amazons vast scale.

About the team
We are a globally distributed engineering organization with teams in Seattle, WA and Hyderabad, India. Our collaborative culture and low operational overhead create a startup-like environment that encourages innovation.

Our vision: Language will not stand in the way of anyone on earth using Amazon products and services.

Our mission: We are the enablers and guardians of translation for Amazons customers. We do this by offering hands-off-the-wheel service to all Amazon teams, optimizing translation quality and speed at the lowest cost possible.

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 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent