Software Development Engineer, Inventory Genealogy
Amazon· Internet & Cloud Services· Sep 14, 2026 · 1mo ago
Bellevue, Washington, USA
In office
Full-time
Mid
$144K–$194K
3+ years exp
Job description
Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers the physical engine at the heart of Amazon. AFT builds and operates software, hardware, and processes that run the global network of fulfillment centers that move many billions of units of inventory, employ tens of thousands of people, and ensure that customers get what they want when we promised we would get it to them. We do this by building automated solutions to handle things that technology does well, while relying on people to handle things that humans do well.
Our inventory systems are the authoritative source of information for billions of inventory units that Amazon holds in its logistical networks, worldwide. As new inventory arrives to our networks, inventory systems enable Amazon's supply chain to route products to optimal locations based on space availability, customer demand and buying patterns. Inventory systems track the state of all items and their location, and share the availability to upstream systems, to make the items sellable on the Amazon website. When customer orders come in, inventory systems reserve specific items and track them through various stages of order fulfillment, until shipments are delivered to customers. Throughout this end-to-end inventory movement, inventory systems detect discrepancies between virtual and physical states of inventory, and enable corrections of virtual inventory state via both preventative and mitigating mechanisms.
The AFT Inventory org is seeking a highly skilled SDE II 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.
This position offers an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of big data technology, GenAI, directly impacting Amazon's inventory management efficiency and accuracy. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in big data technologies, cloud computing, database management, and GenAI, along with strong leadership and problem-solving skills to drive innovation in this complex and dynamic field. If this sounds exciting to you, you’ll find this role to be engaging, challenging, and full of opportunities to learn and grow.
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.
- 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
- 3+ 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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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 amazon.jobs .
USA, WA, Bellevue - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
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Dental
Vision
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Paid Time Off
Parental Leave