Software Development Engineer, Item Identity Services (iis)

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Software Development

Software Development Engineer role focused on building and improving software systems for Amazon's product catalog, utilizing machine learning techniques alongside human-curated rules at scale. The role involves working on item identity services to enhance buyer and seller experiences.

What you'd actually do

  1. help build software systems to improve the quality of Earth’s largest e-commerce catalog
  2. identify problems, propose innovative solutions, relentlessly raise standards, and have a positive impact on hundreds of millions of Amazon customers
  3. work with collaborative leaders
  4. work backwards from customers

Skills

Required

  • 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 modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

Nice to have

  • 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Experience working with AWS Services
  • Experience in software development, or experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems and experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills