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Software Development Engineer, Product Knowledge

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, Product Knowledge in Seattle, United States. It pays $144k-$194k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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  • On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
  • The posting mentions software development, distributed systems and ontology among its tools and skills.
  • Level classes it as a mid-level role.
  • Amazon has 20,000+ other open roles on Level.

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Software Development Engineer to build scalable platforms supporting product knowledge, entity recognition, and semantic analytics.

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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. 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 Development Engineer, Product Knowledge at Amazon rates 25 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ 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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Software DevelopmentDistributed SystemsOntologyEntity RecognitionScalability

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