Software Development Engineer, Product Knowledge

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle is seeking a Software Development Engineer to build scalable platforms and services in an agile environment. You will work with Senior/Principal engineers to advance data science capabilities and semantic knowledge infrastructure.

The role emphasizes design, coding, reviews, and operations with a focus on high-quality product knowledge systems. Candidates should have strong programming experience and a track record of delivering scalable solutions.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Build highly scalable software services in an agile environment.
• Collaborate with senior/lead engineers to deliver data science/analytics platforms.
• Contribute to ontology, entity recognition, and data quality enhancements.

Skills

Software development

System design/architecture

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

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.

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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