Amazon's Inventory Genealogy team is seeking a highly skilled Big Data Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE3) to lead our Genealogy platform development. This critical role will shape the future of our inventory Genealogy and defect detection systems, focusing on root cause analysis and process-level insights. As the lead architect, you'll finalize our high-volume data storage infrastructure and develop advanced analytics solutions, handling approximately 1 billion daily inventory events. Your responsibilities will include building and optimizing a sophisticated knowledge graph to track inventory throughout Amazon's fulfillment network, designing scalable storage solutions, and developing high-performance APIs. You'll also spearhead the creation of analytics tools for defect identification, ensuring data security and compliance throughout. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of big data technology, directly impacting Amazon's inventory management efficiency and accuracy. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in big data technologies, cloud computing, and database management, along with strong leadership and problem-solving skills to drive innovation in this complex and dynamic field.

Key job responsibilities
As an SDE, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying scalable solution. You will collaborate closely with a team of engineers to influence our overall strategy and define the team’s roadmap. You will also help drive the system architecture, spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and help coach and develop junior engineers. A successful candidate will have an established background in Big data analytics, and infrastructure to store TBs of data/events per day.

A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.