Software Development Engineer, Amazon Catalog services team, Amazon Catalog services team

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer (SDE-II) to join our Attribute Knowledge Mining team in Seattle. This team is core to providing and exposing complete and concise product details across the Amazon website, powering seller and buyer experiences through deep integration with large language models, full-stack systems for automatic attribute mining, and infrastructure to share knowledge with various teams within Amazon retail.

About the role

You will work on a new initiative to extract critical product information that extends beyond our current catalog schema. This involves building systems to discover, structure, and surface novel product knowledge from diverse and previously untapped data sources, enabling catalog innovation that improves both existing customer experiences and emerging agentic ones. You will collaborate with senior and principal engineers on high-visibility initiatives shaping the next generation of product understanding at Amazon.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems to extract structured knowledge from unstructured and semi-structured data sources that extend beyond existing catalog schema
• Build LLM prompts and tune them to meet Precision and Recall requirements for novel attribute discovery
• Build scalable, efficient, and automated knowledge discovery pipelines that surface new product dimensions for both conventional and agentic consumers
• Analyze and process large amounts of data to identify and extract valuable information from diverse sources (e.g., product catalog, customer reviews, search queries, product images, external knowledge bases)
• Define and evolve new schema patterns to represent previously uncaptured product knowledge
• Actively participate in idea and roadmap generation
• Effectively present work to all levels of leadership
• Collaborate in a cross-functional team of SDEs, Technical Program Managers, and Product Managers

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
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Pay

Base salary range: $143,700 - $194,400 USD annually (Seattle, WA). Your package will include sign-on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, with options for supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.