Software Development Engineer, Catalog System Services

Join Amazon's Variations team to transform how millions of customers discover and shop for related products. As an SDE-2, you'll be responsible for building innovative solutions that power the relationships between billions of product variations across the world's largest e-commerce catalog. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technologies, including Large Language Models, at unprecedented scale while directly improving customer shopping experiences globally.

You'll be designing and developing systems that ensure customers can easily navigate between product variations (sizes, colors, styles), leveraging cloud computing and machine learning to ensure variation data quality and consistency. The role involves solving fascinating technical challenges, including building scalable systems that handle billions of variation relationships while optimizing cloud resource usage, developing innovative LLM solutions to automatically measure and improve variation quality, and creating sophisticated measurement systems to track quality metrics.

The Variations team sits within Amazon's Catalog Systems division and maintains a high bar for operational and software engineering excellence while fostering a collaborative and supportive culture. You'll work closely with data scientists, product managers, and business stakeholders to continually improve the quality of variations in Amazon's catalog. The team uses AWS technologies like EMR, ECS, Fargate, and SageMaker to build and maintain these systems at scale.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include writing and reviewing high-quality code in Java and Python, collaborating on design documents and architectural decisions, analyzing data to identify variation quality issues, and participating in agile ceremonies. You'll also be responsible for debugging and resolving production issues while maintaining service reliability, monitoring system performance, and staying current with the latest ML/AI technologies.

This role offers competitive compensation ranging from $129,300 to $223,600 based on location, plus equity and comprehensive benefits. It's an excellent opportunity for engineers who are passionate about applying AI to solve real-world problems, working with massive datasets, and directly influencing how millions of customers discover products worldwide.