Join Amazon's Retail Business Services (RBS) team as a Software Development Engineer, where you'll drive the growth of Amazon's retail operations worldwide. RBS focuses on expanding product selection, eliminating supply chain defects, and supporting operational processes for global retail teams.

Our tech initiatives leverage cutting-edge automation, including Machine Learning and Deep Learning, to tackle complex tasks that currently require human intelligence. We aim to ensure Amazon's catalog is comprehensive and accurate, providing an exceptional customer shopping experience. By building innovative solutions, we are paving the way for retail automation and utilizing advanced technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs) to address significant business challenges.

Embrace our "Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History." philosophy. This role offers vast opportunities for professional growth. Whether you excel at mastering a domain, coordinating under pressure, driving methodical improvements, or focusing on efficient code development, there's a place for you here. We are committed to customer obsession, a core tenet of Amazon's DNA, and hire top tech talent to innovate on behalf of our customers.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will have extensive opportunities to design and develop scalable systems that significantly impact a multi-billion dollar business. You'll explore modeling techniques, determine appropriate abstraction levels, and make critical design decisions.

This role involves architecting and developing large-scale distributed technology solutions, innovating new ideas, and providing strategic direction to our business initiatives. You will contribute to key projects supporting our rapid business evolution and growth.

Key responsibilities include driving best engineering practices, mentoring junior engineers, and fostering continuous improvements in engineering and operational excellence. You will leverage technology to solve complex problems and witness the direct impact of your work on millions of customers, sellers, and products globally. Collaborating with talented peers, you will build robust platforms, push the boundaries of innovation, and tackle high-impact business challenges.

We are seeking passionate Software Development Engineers who thrive on architecting and building highly distributed, scalable systems and solving challenging problems. As an SDE-2, your contributions will be consistently high-quality, addressing complex issues with appropriate technologies and best practices.

You will collaborate with your team to invent, design, and build stable and performant software. Proficiency in various design approaches, knowing when to apply them, and avoiding short-term workarounds is essential. Creating flexible, non-over-engineered software, making sound trade-offs, and judiciously managing dependencies are key.

Efficiency in resource utilization (system hardware, database, memory, CPU) is important. You'll work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders, and peers, actively contributing to code reviews, design discussions, team planning, and metric reviews to help your team evolve. Focusing on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems, and proposing solutions will be part of your role. You will also be involved in enhancing team software and processes and training new members on system construction, operation, security, and integration.