Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Offers Platform, Catalog Systems, ASCS

Amazon • Vancouver, BC

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems (ASCS) builds and operates the systems that host the world's largest e-commerce product catalog. We power the online shopping experience, allowing customers to find, discover and buy anything they want, anytime. The Offers Platform team within ASCS are at the core of all Amazon Stores experiences worldwide. We are the authority for product information and critical purchasing data, such as availability and price serving billions of product and buyability records. Offers team respond to billions of requests per day from thousands of internal clients that power the website and other customer interfaces, such as Kindle, Amazon Alexa, Groceries and emerging agentic and generative AI initiatives. We get more traffic than most other Amazon systems with requests handled within a few milliseconds (at P99). Our team owns software running in a distributed, high performance, high availability NoSQL data storage system with an inbuilt micro-service computing environment that calculates and vends product and offering information.

We are looking for seasoned engineers to build the future of vending Amazon's Catalog to provide world-class customer experience. As Amazon grows and diversifies, the challenges get bigger, requiring us to continuously innovate. There are no textbook solutions at our scale. Our engineers are customer-focused, strong performance analysts, and good API designers. These skills help us define the bleeding edge for elegant, super-scalable services at Amazon.com. The ideal candidate will have strong distributed systems and web services design and implementation experience. You should have a thorough understanding of Internet protocols and experience implementing services at scale. You should be somebody who enjoys working on owning software services, is customer-centric, and feels strongly not only about building good software but about making that software achieve its goals in operational reality.

Requirements

• 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
• Strong distributed systems and web services design and implementation experience.
• Thorough understanding of Internet protocols and experience implementing services at scale.
• Customer-focused approach.
• Strong performance analysis skills.
• Good API design skills.

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Build the future of vending Amazon's Catalog to provide world-class customer experience.
• Innovate to solve challenges at Amazon's scale.
• Design and implement elegant, super-scalable services.
• Own software services and ensure they achieve their goals in operational reality.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance)
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
• Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
• paid time off
• other resources to improve health and well-being

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree