Software Development Engineer II

Key job responsibilities
In your role as a Software Development Engineer II (SDE 2) on the Sourcing Performance team, you will:

Design system architecture and develop software in an AWS cloud environment
Enhance our web portals and create agentic experiences for thousands of product vendors and internal employees
Create unit and integration tests
Implement alarms to alert when our services are not operating optimally in the production environment
Monitor system performance, deep-dive into the root cause of important issues and defects
Acquire the domain knowledge necessary to understand how Amazon’s supply chain operates to serve our customers

Together, you and your engineering teammates, technical and product managers will work to invent the next generation of Sourcing Performance services at Amazon, improve the way that we source and procure inventory, and reduce sourcing defects for Earth’s most customer-centric company.

Basic Qualifications
– 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
– 2+ 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
– Experience leveraging Generative AI to accelerate or improve the software development process

Preferred Qualifications
– Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
– An ideal candidate will have a strong intrinsic business sense and experience working on software products that serve the business domain, with basic knowledge of procurement and accounting practices
– Experience incorporating a breadth of data layer technologies (relational, NoSQL, distributed search) into software systems, and performing data deep-dives, writing and debugging complex data queries
– Experience implementing highly available, highly scalable services in a containerized, cloud-hosted environment
– Experience building AI agents to handle customer inquiries, or to administer a business process flow