Software Development Engineer , SDE II, Brand Entity Selection monitoring

• 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

The Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems team (ASCS) builds global selection and catalog management systems. The Selection Monitoring team is responsible for building the biggest product selection on the planet to satisfy our customers’ all shopping needs. We build platforms, systems and tools for the retail/3P business, create and take advantage of datasets that contains billions of records, use the latest machine learning, data processing technologies and a broad set of AWS technologies. In order to drive the expansion of Amazon selection, we use cluster-computing technologies such as MapReduce and Spark to process billions of products and find the products/brands not already sold on Amazon. We work with structured and unstructured content such as text and images and apply Machine Learning algorithms such as Clustering, Natural Language processing, Fuzzy matching and Image processing at a massive scale.

We are looking for engineers to tackle ambiguous problems in the areas of data processing, machine learning algorithms and distributed systems of cloud-scale. You are expected to take ownership, dive deep and drive solutions from developing prototypes, design to coding, testing and deployment. The role demands innovation and expects you to push the boundaries. You will get opportunity to work with many tech teams and business teams within Amazon and deliver solutions that will have an impact to both Amazon top-line & bottom line.

Key job responsibilities

• Partner with Principal Engineers, Sr. SDEs, and Product and Program Management to define and grow the technical and architectural vision for Selection Monitoring’s mission-critical systems driving the brand and product experience on Amazon.
• Deliver and own scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available services that underpin our large-scale data processing solutions.
• Build and own systems for Data discovery and lifecycle management of hundreds of datasets spanning several Petabytes.
• Develop solutions to efficiently deploy and orchestrate hundreds of application flows across a hybrid set of compute environments.
• Utilize serverless and container technologies to build next-gen scalable compute layer solutions.

A day in the life

The SDE on this team will be playing a key role in solving complex problems and building innovative solutions to drive authoritative selection on Amazon platform.

About the team

The team is diverse and is highly cooperative. The team is well composed with 20% senior engineers, 60% seasoned engineers and 20% junior ones. There is enough opportunity to learn from experienced members and mentor inexperienced ones.

• 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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.