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Software Development Engineer, Author Data Quality

Amazon

Amazon

Software Engineering, Data Science, Quality Assurance
Madrid, Spain
Posted on Jul 17, 2025

DESCRIPTION

Do you love to read? Do you have favorite authors? Do you want to build software that delights millions of authors and hundreds of millions of readers shopping on Amazon? If so, the Author Data Quality team will be the right place for you.

We know both from our personal experiences and from research that if you like one book by an author you will probably like other books from that author as well. As the Author Data Quality team our goal is to ensure that books and authors are properly linked so that customers can discover books by an author they are interested in. The challenge is in coming up with complete and accurate list of book author links starting with multiple partial and erroneous sources.

The Author Data Quality team is seeking a highly motivated Sr. Software Development Engineer to be part of a single thread engineering team focusing on Authors. You will have the opportunity to build systems and programs that will impact millions of authors and author followers. The SDE will work with other engineers , SDMs, Product Managers, Technical Program Managers and UX designers to enable authors building an active author to follower community on Amazon that provides tons of unique benefits to followers that will build a demand fly-wheel for Amazon.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Dev Engineer III, you will
- Solve difficult engineering problems with elegant and practical code.
- Design and build solutions on wide-variety of technologies; backend services, AWS-based distributed systems, web applications
- Closely work with Product managers in scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
- Be a champion for the customer and ensure their needs always come first.
- Provide technical leadership and expertise;
- Mentor junior engineer and provide technical guidance to your peers

About the team
As a team we believe in
- Diversity - We do not have all the answers and only diverse perspectives can build a more robust solution.
- Career growth - We identify the career gaps, and as we close these career gaps, we learn new skills and deliver on those. This eventually leads to career growth.
- Work-life balance - Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here.