AmazonSoftware Dev Engineer II, Amazon Catalog
Amazon is hiring a Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon Catalog in Seattle, United States. It pays $144k-$194k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
Level's read on this job
- Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include LLMs, software development and distributed systems.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 20,000+ other open roles at Amazon.
AI in this role
Software Development Engineer building scalable catalog services using LLMs for automated data extraction and classification.
Amazon Selection & Catalog Systems (ASCS) is the engine behind the world's largest product catalog. Billions of products. Hundreds of millions of real-time updates daily. Every price change, every new listing, every inventory shift, our systems make it happen, 24/7/365, at a scale where textbook solutions simply don't apply.
We're hiring a Software Development Engineer (L5) to join our Selection & Curation Systems team in Seattle, and this isn't your typical SDE role.
What Makes This Different
This team is early-stage by Amazon standards. We're building brand-new services and tools from scratch, no legacy baggage, minimal operational burden, and a roadmap packed with greenfield projects scaling to worldwide customers this year.
You won't just write code. You'll drive technical design across organizational boundaries, own end-to-end solutions, and tackle problems that sit at the intersection of massive scale and real ambiguity:
Ensuring product identity and traceability at global scale.
Processing and normalizing standardized product data from trading partners worldwide.
Extracting structured data from unstructured content using LLMs
Automatic classification of items and data at catalog scale
Big data visualization and analytics pipelines
Massively distributed systems that push the limits of scale and performance
If you've ever wanted to work on problems where the answer doesn't exist yet and build it, this is that opportunity.
Who You Are
You have strong technical design instincts and can architect systems that work reliably at extreme scale
You're comfortable leading across team boundaries — aligning with business owners, senior developers, and principals
You're energized by ambiguity and greenfield work, not intimidated by it
You ship, you learn, you iterate
Why This Team, Why Now
Direct impact on hundreds of millions of customers and sellers worldwide, your work shows up in the shopping experience, every day
Ground floor of a new technology stack with a clear scaling trajectory
Cutting-edge problem space: LLMs, distributed systems, big data, applied to real products at real scale
A team that's fast-moving, collaborative, and genuinely fun to work with
Key job responsibilities
As a software development engineer on this team, you will play a pivotal role in the following:
Work with the team to help drive business decisions
Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to drive services optimizations, cost, and security.
Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
Write high quality distributed system software
Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
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 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.
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
How we rate this
Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon Catalog at Amazon rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- Tell me about a project where software development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where big data was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where machine learning was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used LLMs in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Software Development, Distributed Systems, Big Data, Machine learning, and LLMs. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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