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Software Development Engineer, Product Knowledge

Seattle, WAOnsiteFull Time$143,700–$194,400 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • system design
  • programming language

Nice to have

  • software development life cycle
  • coding standards
  • code reviews
  • source control management
  • agile
  • data science

Role summary

Amazon's Product Knowledge team is seeking a Software Development Engineer to build scalable platforms and solutions for product knowledge management. The role involves creating a rich body of product data to inform customer purchase decisions and assist Selling Partners. Responsibilities include developing systems for ontology creation, entity recognition, data quality improvement, and knowledge inferencing within an agile environment. The position requires professional software development experience, including system design, reliability, and scaling. Experience with the full software development lifecycle is preferred.

Are you interested in building solutions to enable and drive Customer Experiences and Selling Partner Experiences, by delivering high-quality and high-fidelity knowledge about products and services at scale. In Amazon Product Knowledge team, we are working to accomplish this mission by producing a singular, universally applicable, contextualized and semantically rich body of product knowledge that enables the ingestion, enrichment, display and consumption of structured product data. We enable - (a) customers are able to make informed purchase decisions using contextual product details, (b) Selling Partners to list high-quality product details without encountering friction, and (c) improving product knowledge in efficient and collaborative manner. If you've ever shopped on Amazon, you’ve interacted with our product.

We are looking for engineers to build platforms and solutions to enable various data science and analytics capabilities including; web scale ontology creation, entity recognition, improving data quality, discovery of new relationships along with its semantic, knowledge inferencing and enhancement to support strategic and tactical decision-making. As a Software Development Engineer in this team, you will build highly scalable software services in agile environment. The role requires innovation and expects pushing the boundaries. You will regularly work with Senior Software Development Engineer and Principal Engineers. Basic Qualifications: - 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 Preferred Qualifications: - 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.



USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

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