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Senior Software Development Engineer

Amazon
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Seattle, WA$168.1k - $227.4kPosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior SDE to lead design, implementation, and delivery of large-scale data ingestion and catalog quality systems for Amazon's Selection and Catalog Systems (ASCS), involving high-fidelity product observations (images, OCR, barcodes, dimensions, expiration) to improve catalog data quality and enable scalable fulfillment and growth.

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture of large-scale distributed systems that process hundreds of millions of transactions daily, owning design, implementation, and operation across the full software lifecycle.
  • Partner with Applied Scientists to translate ML research into production inference infrastructure that extracts product information from images at scale.
  • Define a multi-year technical roadmap, sequence delivery to balance near-term customer impact with long-term platform investment, and drive architectural consistency across engineering and science workstreams by influencing teams you depend on but do not directly control.
  • Establish measurable quality, reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency standards so systems continue to perform as expected while scale grows.
  • Mentor engineers through hands-on code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance. Influence product technical direction by articulating architectural trade-offs, tech debt, and their business impact to stakeholders and partners.

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

Skills

Required:Large-scale distributed systems designML inference infrastructureRoadmap planning and architectural strategyMentoring and technical leadership

Benefits

  • Base salary range: USA, WA, Seattle: 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
  • Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D; option for Supplemental life), EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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