Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon Catalog

What if the system you built today was used by hundreds of millions of people -- not hypothetically but literally

Amazon Selection & Catalog Systems (ASCS) is the engine behind the worlds largest product catalog. Billions of products. Hundreds of millions of real-time updates daily. Every price change every new listing every inventory shift our systems make it happen 24/7/365 at a scale where textbook solutions simply dont apply.

Were hiring a Software Development Engineer (L5) to join our Selection & Curation Systems team in Seattle and this isnt your typical SDE role.

What Makes This Different
This team is early-stage by Amazon standards. Were building brand-new services and tools from scratch no legacy baggage minimal operational burden and a roadmap packed with greenfield projects scaling to worldwide customers this year.

You wont just write code. Youll drive technical design across organizational boundaries own end-to-end solutions and tackle problems that sit at the intersection of massive scale and real ambiguity:


Ensuring product identity and traceability at global scale.
Processing and normalizing standardized product data from trading partners worldwide.
Extracting structured data from unstructured content using LLMs
Automatic classification of items and data at catalog scale
Big data visualization and analytics pipelines
Massively distributed systems that push the limits of scale and performance


If youve ever wanted to work on problems where the answer doesnt exist yet and build it this is that opportunity.

Who You Are

You have strong technical design instincts and can architect systems that work reliably at extreme scale
Youre comfortable leading across team boundaries aligning with business owners senior developers and principals
Youre energized by ambiguity and greenfield work not intimidated by it
You ship you learn you iterate


Why This Team Why Now

Direct impact on hundreds of millions of customers and sellers worldwide your work shows up in the shopping experience every day
Ground floor of a new technology stack with a clear scaling trajectory
Cutting-edge problem space: LLMs distributed systems big data applied to real products at real scale
A team thats fast-moving collaborative and genuinely fun to work with


Interested
Reach out to amolsola@ to learn more or start a conversation. Wed love to tell you more about what were building.

Key job responsibilities

As a software development engineer on this team you will play a pivotal role in the following:
Work with the team to help drive business decisions
Design implement test deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to drive services optimizations cost and security.
Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
Write high quality distributed system software
Work in an agile startup-like development environment where you are always working on the most important stuff.

- 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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually