Software Development Engineer Selection Monitoring

The Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems team (ASCS) builds global selection and catalog management systems. The Selection Monitoring team is responsible for building the biggest product selection on the planet to satisfy our customers all shopping needs. We build platforms systems and tools to create and take advantage of datasets that contains billions of records use the latest machine learning data processing technologies and a broad set of AWS technologies. In order to drive the expansion of Amazon selection we use clustercomputing technologies such as MapReduce and Spark to process billions of products and find the products/brands not already sold on Amazon. We work with structured and unstructured content such as text and images and apply Machine Learning algorithms such as Clustering Natural Language processing Fuzzy matching and Image processing at a massive scale.


We are looking for engineers to tackle ambiguous problems in the areas of data processing machine learning algorithms and distributed systems of cloudscale. You are expected to take ownership dive deep and drive solutions from developing prototypes design to coding testing and deployment. The role demands innovation and expects you to push the boundaries. You will get opportunity to work with many tech teams and business teams within Amazon and deliver solutions that will have an impact to both Amazon topline & bottom line.



Key job responsibilities
Partner with Principal Engineers Sr. SDEs and Product and Program Management to define and grow the technical and architectural vision for Selection Monitorings missioncritical systems driving the brand and product experience on Amazon.
Deliver and own scalable faulttolerant and highly available services that underpin our largescale data processing solutions.
Build and own systems for Data discovery and lifecycle management of hundreds of datasets spanning several Petabytes.
Develop solutions to efficiently deploy and orchestrate hundreds of application flows across a hybrid set of compute environments.
Utilize serverless and container technologies to build nextgen scalable compute layer solutions.


The SDE on this team will be playing a key role in solving complex problems and building innovative solutions to drive authoritative selection on Amazon platform. Candidate needs to have a high sense of ownership ability to develop end to end solutions and improve customer experience. This role would expose you to solving problems of scale in the areas of data mining machine learning algorithms and distributed systems of cloudscale.


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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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.