Rufus is a generative AI-powered shopping assistant in the Amazon Shopping app designed to help answer a variety of shopping-related questions. Rufus makes it easy for customers to find and discover the best products to meet their needs by helping with product research, providing comparisons and recommendations, answering specific product questions, and more. We are searching for pioneers who are passionate about technology, innovation, and customer experience to join the Rufus team.

If you are thrilled about creating customer experiences that will be used by millions of people worldwide and are eager to tackle technical challenges that have never been addressed before, then this is the perfect opportunity for you.

As a Software Engineer in this role, you will have the opportunity to design and lead the development of a unique and engaging feature for millions of customers. You will be an integral part of a passionate and creative team that encourages experimentation and innovation on behalf of our customers. You will play an active role in building quick prototypes or proofs of concept in partnership with other technology leaders within the team. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon. Along the way, you’ll learn a lot, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.

We are seeking the industry's best to help us create new ways to shop, delivering features our customers love- at high quality, and at scale. You will work in an Agile environment, building and operating scalable services. Leveraging existing Amazon services and components, and innovating novel capabilities as needed, you will work closely with your team to deliver business value and customer facing features.


Key job responsibilities
• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring to market innovative products and services
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use
• Ability to design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high quality software

About the team
If you’re insatiably curious and always want to learn more, then you’ve come to the right place. Depending on your location, country, job status and other requirements, some or all of the following benefits may be available to you.
• Competitive pay
• At Amazon, most employees have the ability to become owners of the company through the granting and vesting of Restricted Stock Units (RSU’s)
• Hybrid working (team dependent)
• Dynamic work spaces
• Unlimited access to internal trainings
• Care for your overall wellbeing, with support for our physical and mental health
• Real opportunity to grow your career across the organization.