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Software Development Engineer, Seller Economics & Fees

Amazon.com Inc
  • Seattle, WA
    7 days ago

    Job Description

    Are you an SDE II who thrives on end-to-end ownership, gets energized by problems where correctness actually matters, and wants to work on systems that are actively being reimagined and not just maintained? This role might be for you.

    On Fee Tech, you will own systems that 2+MM sellers depend on daily to understand, predict, and act on their economics. The work is genuinely end-to-end: you design, build, ship, and operate. Our systems process ~68.5B transactions and used across 23 countries. The engineering model is changing fast: we are rebuilding how fee policy is expressed, deployed, and validated using AI agents, formal verification (SMT), and self-improving RL loops.

    You will work alongside senior and principal engineers, product managers, applied scientists, and ML engineers across the full fee lifecycle - from the Fee Calculation Engine through ML-based item classification to seller-facing AI surfaces and the agentic infrastructure beneath them. If you are the kind of engineer who wants to see the direct impact of what you ship, you will see it here.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Design and implement software solutions for major features and improvements, balancing technical constraints with customer needs while ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
    • Contribute across the full software development lifecycle including product definition, system design, coding, testing, deployment, and operational support, delivering incrementally and with high quality.
    • Identify root causes of operational issues and implement permanent fixes, continuously improving your team"s systems and technical processes to reduce support costs and increase reliability.
    • Mentor and coach fellow engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing, actively training new team members on system architecture, operations, and design decisions.
    • Evaluate new technologies and approaches to solve problems using optimal data structures and algorithms, making thoughtful recommendations for adoption while keeping solutions as simple as possible.
    • Operate AI-native engineering practices: use AI-assisted coding, multi-agent workflows, and agentic code review tools as your default mode of software delivery.

    A day in the life

    You start your morning reviewing a pull request from a teammate, offering feedback that strengthens both the code and the engineer behind it. After a quick standup, you dive into designing a new feature, sketching out how it fits into the broader system architecture. In the afternoon, you might pair with a colleague to debug a tricky production issue, then document your findings so the team can learn from it. Throughout it all, you collaborate closely with product partners to ensure what you build truly serves the customer.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Algorithmsunmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agentsunmatched
    • Coachingunmatched
    • Code Reviewsunmatched
    • Continuous Improvementunmatched
    • Cost Controlunmatched
    • Data Structuresunmatched
    • Debugging Skillsunmatched
    • Economicsunmatched
    • Formal Verificationunmatched
    • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Operational Supportunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Product Lifecycleunmatched
    • Root Cause Analysisunmatched
    • Salesunmatched
    • Software Designunmatched
    • Software Developmentunmatched
    • Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
    • Software Engineeringunmatched
    • Surface Mount Technologyunmatched
    • System Architectureunmatched
    • System Operationsunmatched
    • Testingunmatched

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