Software Development Engineer II Items and Relationships Platform RIC

Interested in a team involving data sciences algorithm development leveraging Artificial Intelligence and an opportunity to impact every Amazon customer

The RIC team is responsible for the critical services that assemble the product detail pages on the Amazon website by combining data from sellers vendors or internal systems in realtime millions of times a day. These services which are a core part of the Amazons catalog are being rebuilt from scratch. The team offers a unique blend of hard computer science problems (scalable distributed systems and high performance algorithms) and an opportunity to help the businesses model their vision on the platform. You will work alongside visionaries who have defined some of the foundational systems at Amazon.

Successful candidates are passionate about translating highlevel ambiguous business goals to software platforms that enable multiple businesses. You are comfortable taking initiative and working alongside and leading topnotch software developers.

Key job responsibilities
The SDE2 is responsible for highly ambiguous and challenging problems at a global scale. You will be responsible for design development and end to end delivery of software applications. You will influence technical direction drive operational excellence best practices and maintain quality on team deliverables. You will also have the opportunity to learn from highperforming software engineering teams and mentor junior members.

A day in the life
You take initiative and work along side topnotch engineers and product managers to innovate. You obsess about your customers and by extension the reliability and performance of your teams software. Milliseconds matter at millions of requests per second!

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.