Amazon's Inventory Genealogy team is seeking a highly skilled Software Development Engineer (SDE2) 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!

About the team
Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.

Inventory 
AFT’s Inventory team delivers complex, innovative, scalable solutions to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of all physical goods across the Amazon fulfillment network, ensuring both inventory record accuracy and safe inventory handling for billions of items.