Software Development Engineer, Items and Offers Platform, Catalog Diagnostics & Analytics
About the role
The Item and Relationship team at Amazon is responsible for developing services that process item information from millions of merchants. This includes managing billions of products in the catalog, processing hundreds of millions of changes daily, and enabling teams to diagnose and resolve catalog issues.
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
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture 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
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Skills
Successful candidates are passionate about translating high-level, ambiguous business goals to software platforms that enable multiple businesses. They are comfortable taking initiative and working alongside top-notch software developers and participating in cross-team projects.
Benefits
Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. For more information, visit https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
Pay
Base salary range: $165,200.00 - $223,600.00 USD annually
Schedule
Full-time