Software Development Engineer, Amazon Private Brands

Join our Amazon Private Brands Selection Guidance organization in building science and tech solutions at scale to delight our customers with products across our leading private brands such as Amazon Basics Amazon Essentials and by Amazon.

The Selection Guidance team applies Generative AI Machine Learning Statistics and Economics solutions to drive our private brands product assortment strategic business decisions and product inputs such as title price merchandising and ordering. We are an interdisciplinary team of Software Engineers Scientists Economists and Product Managers incubating and building day one solutions using novel technology to solve some of the toughest business problems at Amazon.

As a Software Development Engineer on the team you will drive improvements to our technology collaborating with economists and scientists and highly-engaged users to ship code continuously. Were truly an agile shop: we work closely with users deliver features with high frequency can pivot on a dime when needed and are passionate about test coverage refactoring and paying off technical debt. We are looking for software development leaders who share our vision for continuously improving the customer experience who are motivated by challenging problems in distributed systems algorithms and who love writing great code.

This is a unique high visibility opportunity for someone who wants to develop at the intersection of AI and software with direct business and customer impact.

Key job responsibilities
* You will solve a breadth of technical problems at global scale
* You will contribute to technical strategies vision and architecture
* You will have the opportunity to influence quantitative algorithms used (e.g. machine learning reinforcement learning large language models) to make recommendations
* You will design and build software to train models in collaboration with applied science
* You will design and build software that serves model output to other services and user interfaces to review and interact with model suggestions
* You will be heavily involved with design and product teams to understand needs propose features create early prototypes and transform them into exciting end consumer features
* Write clean maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews
* Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance maintainability scalability extensibility as needed
* Propose innovative tools frameworks automations and processes that are used by the entire team for development
* Mentor team members to promote engineering excellence

- 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

- 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
- Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals including architecture training/inference lifecycles and optimization of model execution

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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN BC Vancouver - 114800.00 - 191800.00 CAD annually