# Software Development Engineer, Core Shopping

We're looking for a Software Development Engineer II to design and build the systems powering Amazon's next-generation Lists and Collaborative Shopping experiences. Our team is re-imagining how hundreds of millions of customers curate, discover, and connect through lists. We're applying generative AI to transform Wish Lists, shared lists, gifting, and collaborative shopping into intelligent, personalized experiences on top of Tier-1 systems serving billions of daily requests across every Amazon surface. You'll work on services that power these experiences and you'll do it during a pivotal moment as we integrate AI-native capabilities into our core framework. This is a role for someone who enjoys end-to-end ownership: diving into ambiguous customer problems, designing distributed systems that scale, writing production code, and measuring customer impact. You'll work across our full stack (back end services, APIs, and integrations with Amazon's shopping ecosystem) and partner closely with applied scientists, product managers, and designers to ship features that customers use every day. If you're motivated by building systems at massive scale, working with state of the art AI, and shi

- **Id**: 4291511
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-software-development-engineer-core-shopping>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T23:20:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T19:02:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3607
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 4577
- **Ghost share**: 0.001
- **Stale share**: 0.815
- **Repost share**: 0.004
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 33
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 143700
- **Max**: 194400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 194400

## Technologies

- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T23:20:04Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 33
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 194400
- **Is top pay**: yes

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