Software Development Engineer , Amazon Customer Service

We are seeking a talented leader with strong technical background to join our Customer Experience Products organization on the Amazon Customer service (CS) Knowledge team. In this role, you will be reimagining how we create and manage content in a Native AI-world, distilling long-form CS help articles, policies, and standard operating procedures to their core underlying facts ('Knowledge Artifacts'). You will have the opportunity to work across the team as we build the foundation that powers customer service experiences across Amazon. This role will give you the chance to tackle challenges that influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world.

• Key job responsibilities
• - Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• - Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• - Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• - Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• - Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

• A day in the life
• As a Software Development Engineer, you'll help build products that impact critical customer experiences. You'll tackle complex technical initiatives head-on, building high-quality, scalable systems that serve our global customer base. Working closely with peer engineers, you'll help shape our technical architecture while maintaining direct ownership of key components.

• About the team
• This role sits within the Customer Experience Products organization on the CS Knowledge team. Our vision is a world where customer and associate-facing CS content is always relevant, accurate, complete, and fresh, and is served-up effectively across all channels. We're shifting the paradigm for content creation and maintenance, moving from an output-driven approach based on static content types to a trusted set of artifacts about Amazon products, services, and policies that generate accurate, consistent, and personalized content in any form. Join our team to help build the foundation that powers customer service experiences across Amazon.

Basic qualifications

• - 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• - Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• - Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• - Experience working with REST API based services, or experience with programming/scripting (Batch, VB, PowerShell, Java, C#, Chef, Perl, Ruby and/or PHP) and experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications
• - Can show strong verbal and written communication skills

Preferred qualifications

• - Knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing principles
• - Experience with AWS technologies
• - Experience in process design and documentation

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually