Software Development Engineer, Catalog DataWorks, Item and Offers Platform

Amazon is a fast paced innovative company that is developing software that no one has attempted before. If you are a data engineer who is passionate about writing code and loves to build large scale data pipelines which are scalable high throughput fault tolerant and always available then get in touch with us.

The Item and Offers team is responsible for a variety of services that form a core part of the Amazon eCommerce platform. We are primarily responsible for developing the services that process all of the Item information from millions of merchants who want to sell through the Amazon family of websites. Our expertise lies in managing billions of products in the catalog and developing large scale distributed systems that process hundreds of millions of changes to the catalog every day in real time. The team offers a unique blend of hard computer science problems and an opportunity to help the businesses model their new ideas.

Are you passionate about working with large datasets and code Do you want to build and manage data engineering solutions that process a broad range of data schemas Do you want to continuously improve the data pipelines that operate at Amazons catalog scale while ensuring our customers trust If yes then come join the Catalog Data Works (CDW) team with the charter to provide useful fresh and historical catalog data that teams at Amazon can analyze and leverage for their business use cases. The published by this team are a critical component of building a catalog that earns our customers trust.

As a Software Engineer in the CDW team you will own complex big data pipelines and data solutions to provide highly availability datasets. You will work with large data sets (in petabytes) and transformations involving multiple data sources to enable downstream analytics for our stakeholders. You will build and manage large datasets to help teams drive datadriven decisions through analytical and business metrics dashboards. You will be building libraries tools and scripts to enable /accelerate other teams in organization accelerate their dataset generation work.

The Software Engineer will play a crucial role in designing developing and maintaining efficient and scalable data pipelines data models and data warehousing solutions. This position will be responsible for ensuring data integrity quality and availability across the organization enabling datadriven decisionmaking and supporting business analytics and insight initiatives.

Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
3 years of big data technologies such as AWS Hadoop Spark Pig Hive Lucene/SOLR or Storm/Samza experience
Experience with diverse data formats: Parquet JSON big data formats and table formats like Apache Iceberg
Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language such as Python Java or Scala

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Experience with BDT toolsets like Cradle DataCraft Andes and other products
Experience in managing data at scale (hundreds of terabyte size datasets)
Experience mentoring team members on best practices

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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.