Amazon Software Development Engineer II Product Knowledge 

United States, New York, New York 

421085837

Product Knowledge at Amazon is core to every aspect of the retail shopping experience, powering key functions such as search and browse for shoppers and the product listing experience for third-party sellers. You will work on core PK services that describe, vend and release Catalog metadata content, providing a safe and consistent way to release content for the retail catalog to consume. You will design and build distributed, fault tolerant systems to handle data at scale and with low latency. Along the way you will use LLMs to evaluate effectiveness of the metadata and generate strategic solutions to improve the Catalog. You will have the opportunity to lead high impact, challenging projects that will influence the technical strategy of the whole organization.As a Software Engineer, you will tackle our most complex challenges, building high-quality, architecturally sound systems that align with our business needs and propel us forward. You'll translate business needs into workable technology solutions, collaborating closely with product managers and engineering teams to deliver innovative products. Your expertise will be both deep and broad, allowing you to produce detailed technical work, high-level architectural designs, and groundbreaking solutions that push the boundaries of what's possible.
Key job responsibilities
- You will leverage the right AWS tech stacks and methodologies to build highly performant, scalable systems that fit our fast growing business's scale.

- 4+ 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
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- 4+ 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