Software Development Engineer, Amazon Catalog services team

About the role

Imagine being part of a team that drives the growth of the world's largest online marketplace. We are seeking a talented and resourceful Software Development Engineer (SDE-II) to join our Selection & Catalog Systems team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in crafting cutting-edge solutions that fuel the expansion of our extensive product catalog and enable seamless product discovery for customers globally. You will span a diverse range of technical challenges including: developing robust mechanisms to seamlessly inherit the catalog attribute standards from centralized systems; implementing sophisticated algorithms to ensure consistency in product data across all global marketplaces and enabling a unified customer experience; creating innovative solutions for image comparison and recognition to ensure accurate product identification; designing creative solutions to validate product data and provide first‑class product data to customers; establishing a continuous feedback mechanism on validation processing to continuously expand product data validation by integrating with external sources; and developing scalable mechanisms to help sellers address product data quality issues. Throughout your journey, you will gain exposure to a diverse technology stack, including NoSQL databases, Java, cloud computing platforms, machine learning frameworks and LLMs. Collaborating with seasoned engineers and technical leaders, you will work on high‑impact initiatives that directly shape the shopping experience for Amazon customers worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead the development of a groundbreaking validation framework and service designed to proactively detect and prevent data quality issues across our vast product catalog
• Build sophisticated algorithms integrating with AI/ML science models to perform deterministic and probablistic validation at scale
• Create innovative, low latency and high performance probablistic validation solutions to achieve high correctness across the textual, numeric, image attributes
• Develop Insights framework that harnesses the power of service logs and metrics to continuously expand and refine our validation guardrails
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to develop E2E solution for product data validation and surface actionable feedback to sellers

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
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 2+ years of distributed systems experience
• Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities, or experience in managing and troublshooting network
• Experience working in a fast‑paced work environment

Skills

Exposure to a diverse technology stack including NoSQL databases, Java, cloud computing platforms, machine learning frameworks and LLMs.

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

Pay

The base salary range for this position is 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (USA, WA, Seattle). The Amazon package also includes sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).