Software Development Engineer, CS Knowledge

Lensa; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Lensa is seeking a Software Development Engineer for Amazon's Customer Service Technology team in Seattle. This role involves developing scalable software solutions and tackling complex challenges. Candidates should have strong programming skills and a background in software development, ideally with experience in full software development life cycle.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Maternity and Parental Leave Options

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k) Plan

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years design or architecture experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Solve complex problems by applying appropriate technologies.
• Collaborate with the team to build high-performing software solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and advise on the team's direction.

Skills

Problem Solving

Software Development

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer, CS Knowledge

Software Development Engineer, CS Knowledge

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Description

Join the Amazon Customer Service (CS) Technology organization as a Software Development Engineer on our advanced platform services engineering team.

We develop and maintain search and retrieval capabilities across the Global Content Store (GCS) and its diverse content sets. Our investments optimize content discoverability, implement advanced search algorithms, and ensure accurate query results. We support content indexing, content chunking, taxonomy management, and multilingual search functionalities. We enable seamless access to support the content management lifecycle for both customer self-service and associate systems, serving billions of monthly requests globally. If you're passionate about developing innovative solutions, designing highly distributed systems that scale, and building for the future, this is the opportunity for you. You'll tackle algorithmically complex challenges, working on front-end and back-end services that seamlessly scale to meet customer needs. Additionally, you'll have the chance to work on pioneering Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI initiatives that are reshaping the call center industry.

Key job responsibilities

• Solve complex problems by applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
• Collaborate with the team to invent, design, and build stable, high-performing, and scalable software solutions.
• Make judicious trade-offs, reuse existing components where feasible, and carefully manage dependencies.
• Provide technical guidance, and advise on the team's direction, and offer feedback on designs.
• Create prototypes to assist in decision-making processes.
• Foster cross-team collaboration by working closely with partner teams across the organization.
  
  

A day in the life

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

Benefits Summary

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Maternity and Parental Leave Options
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k) Plan
  
  

About The Team

The mission of the CET team within Customer Service is to create Earth’s best customer service solutions through empowering our customers to utilize automation to resolve their issues quickly and efficiently. You will be a key component of our leadership team and will influence our science and engineering teams to deliver Worldwide Self-Service Automation (SSA) products and Customer Service Agent (CSA) facing Automation products influenced by Gen-AI.

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
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
  
  

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

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on 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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Internship

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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