Software Development Engineer, Items and Offers Platform, Catalog Diagnostics & Analytics

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

Amazon is a fast paced innovative company that is developing software that no
one has attempted before. If you are a software developer who is passionate
about writing code and loves to build distributed systems that are
transactional, scalable, high throughput, fault tolerant and always available,
then get in touch with us.

The Item and Relationship team is responsible for a variety of services that
form a core part of the Amazon eCommerce platform. We are primarily responsible
for developing the services that process all of the Item information from
millions of merchants who want to sell through the Amazon family of websites.
Our expertise lies in managing billions of products in the catalog and
developing large scale distributed systems that process hundreds of millions of
changes to the catalog every day in real time, publish the data for near
realtime and offline analytics and enable teams to diagnose catalog issues. The
team offers a unique blend of hard computer science problems and an opportunity
to help the businesses model their new ideas.

Successful candidates are passionate about translating high-level, ambiguous
business goals to software platforms that enable multiple businesses. You are
comfortable taking initiative and working along side top-notch software
developers and work on cross-team projects.

Requirements

• 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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Design and build highly scalable distributed systems handling 100K+ TPS and petabyte-scale data pipelines with high reliability and performance
• Develop agentic diagnostic services providing intelligent monitoring, anomaly detection, and automated troubleshooting for mission-critical operations
• Write clean, maintainable code following engineering best practices, conduct code reviews, and optimize system performance at scale
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across distributed systems and drive technical initiatives from conception to delivery
• Take end-to-end ownership of features from design through deployment, participate in on-call rotations, and ensure 24/7 service availability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing
• Monitor system health proactively, participate in capacity planning, and drive continuous improvement in reliability and efficiency

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level