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Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Personalization - Customer 360

Amazon· Amazon Personalization
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Seattle, WA, USA$168.1k - $227.4kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Technical leadership role building a new foundational AI-driven system with persistent, compounding memory at organizational scale. Lead architecture and drive production-ready solutions from research to production, partnering with Applied Scientists to translate breakthroughs into scalable systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end architecture for knowledge extraction, real-time retrieval, and cross-domain reconciliation systems.
  • Lead design and implementation of distributed systems handling millions of events per day with sub-second retrieval latency.
  • Make foundational choices about storage, indexing, and retrieval that will scale from day-one prototype to company-wide production.
  • Define technical standards, code review practices, and engineering culture for a team that's forming now.
  • Partner directly with Applied Scientists to translate research breakthroughs into production-grade systems.
  • Drive technical strategy with senior leadership visibility — your decisions shape the product roadmap.
  • Design systems that handle temporal decay, conflicting knowledge sources, and privacy-preserving retrieval at scale.
  • Mentor junior engineers and establish the patterns that the rest of the team will build on.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
  • 5+ 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

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designKnowledge extractionReal-time retrievalStorage, indexing, retrieval designMentorship

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and related life insurance options
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
  • Other comprehensive benefits as listed on company site
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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