Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Personalization

Are you passionate about innovating and delivering shopping experiences that empower every Amazon customer based on their unique shopping intent? Are you looking for new challenges and solving hard problems while using top-notch technologies? Join us and you'll help millions of customers to make informed purchase decisions from a multi-billion product selection!

The Discover Innovation team is dedicated to assisting customers in fulfilling their shopping objectives and empowering other Amazon teams by leveraging our deep understanding of customer intent. Our vision for Intent-Aware Amazon aims for personalized experiences to become a cornerstone for customers, alongside Earths largest selection, competitive prices, and swift, free shipping. In tailoring the shopping experience to each customers intent, we envision operating seamlessly across Amazon as a talented personal shopping assistant a partner that is trusted, knowledgeable, and understands your unique preferences. As an engineer on the team, you will build software services and features that enables millions of Amazon customers worldwide to discover products that match their shopping intent throughout their shopping journey. You will delight customers by personalizing their shopping experiences, guiding them from discovery through purchase. Additionally, you will enable 45+ teams across the company by building services that personalize the shopping experience for our customers.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop and maintain key services and frontend features that enhance personalized customer experiences.
- Collaborate with peers to explore design strategies, prototype new technologies, and assess technical feasibility.
- Partner closely with Applied Scientists to process large datasets and generate content to power great customer experiences.
- Lead system architecture and advocate best practices for a quality infrastructure.
- Face challenging, unique and ambiguous scenarios daily, collaborating with various technical teams at Amazon.
- Gain expertise in newest technologies and algorithms, particularly in Generative AI, to enhance our pursuit of creating the ultimate shopping experience.

About the team
The Discover Innovation team mission is to delight customers by helping them discover the right content at the right time, tailoring the shopping experience to the customers intent and unique shopping preferences. We are a team of dedicated Scientists and Engineers working to develop trusted, knowledgeable, personalized, educational shopping experiences that help customers learn about and decide what they want to purchase.

- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ 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

- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

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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 . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.