Amazon

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Join Amazon's Variations team and transform how millions of customers discover and shop for related products! As an SDE-2, you'll build innovative solutions that power the relationships between billions of product variations across the world's largest e-commerce catalog. This is your chance to work with leading AI technologies including LLM at unprecedented scale while directly improving customer shopping experiences globally.

You'll design and develop systems that ensure customers can easily navigate between product variations (sizes, colors, styles), leveraging Large Language Models, cloud computing, and machine learning to ensure variation data quality and consistency. Working with complex theme attributes across product families, you'll solve fascinating technical challenges:

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

Creating sophisticated measurement systems to track quality metrics and identify improvement opportunities

Implementing robust applications using AWS technologies like EMR, ECS, Fargate, and SageMaker

If you're excited about applying AI to solve real-world problems, working with massive datasets, and directly influencing how millions of customers discover products worldwide, this role offers a unique opportunity to build data-driven systems at a scale rarely available elsewhere.

Key job responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable services that measure, validate, and improve variation relationship quality across billions of products using AWS technologies (EMR, ECS, Fargate, SageMaker)
• Implement sophisticated algorithms to ensure consistency in variation theme attributes (size, color, style) across all global marketplaces
• Build innovative GenAI solutions using Large Language Models to automatically evaluate and enhance variation quality
• Create robust feedback mechanisms that enable continuous improvement of variation data
• Develop tooling and APIs that help Selling Partners address product variation quality issues
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement solutions that enhance customer discovery experiences
• Participate in architectural decisions that balance performance, cost, and customer experience

A day in the life

• Write and review high-quality, well-tested code in languages such as Java and Python
• Collaborate with team members on design documents and architectural decisions
• Analyze data to identify variation quality issues and measure improvement impact
• Attend daily stand-ups and participate in sprint planning/retrospective meetings
• Work with product managers to scope and prioritize new features
• Debug and resolve production issues while maintaining service reliability
• Monitor system performance and optimize for scale and efficiency
• Stay current with latest ML/AI technologies and evaluate their potential application
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance

About the team

The Variations team sits within Amazon's Catalog Systems division and is responsible for ensuring customers can easily navigate between related product options. We build systems at massive scale, processing billions of product relationships that power shopping experiences across all Amazon marketplaces. Our team maintains a high bar for operational and software engineering excellence while fostering a collaborative and supportive culture. We work closely with data scientists, product managers, and business stakeholders to continually improve the quality of variations in Amazon's catalog, directly enhancing the customer shopping journey.

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.