The role
From Amazon's own posting.
Customers should be able to trust every deal they see on Amazon, and sellers should be able to offer genuine deals with confidence. Our team makes both possible. We own Amazon's record of what products have cost, which helps confirm that deals deliver real savings and helps customers decide whether now is a good time to buy.
The scale is rare. You will build systems that process price and order data for millions of products, every day, across Amazon's stores in more than a dozen countries. That data feeds dozens of systems across Amazon, from the deal and promotion tools sellers and vendors use to the price history customers see on product pages and the answers AI shopping assistants give about past prices. During Prime Day and Black Friday, your systems have to stay accurate and fresh under the heaviest shopping load of the year.
We are bringing our historical price systems together onto one shared record, so customers, sellers, and partner teams all see the same history. You will help design and deliver that change while the systems keep running in production, and you join while the architecture is still being set.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate large-scale data pipelines that process price and order data for millions of products every day.
- Build data-quality checks and anomaly detection that keep the historical price record accurate and trustworthy at that scale.
- Deliver key parts of the move onto one shared price-history platform, using parallel runs, shadow testing, staged cutovers, and retirement of legacy components.
- Make price data fresher by moving batch processing toward event-driven designs where freshness matters most.
- Own operational readiness for peak shopping events such as Prime Day and Black Friday, including capacity testing, monitoring, alarms, and on-call.
- Build tools that help sellers, vendors, and internal teams understand and trust the price data behind their deals.
- Define clear data contracts with partner engineering teams in deals, promotions, shopping experiences, and AI shopping assistants.
- Write design documents, take part in design and code reviews, and mentor newer engineers on the team.
- Use AI-assisted development tools to speed up migration, testing, and validation work, while applying your own judgment to correctness and design.
A day in the life
You start the morning in a design review for the shared price-history platform, working through how it will serve fresh data for millions of products at Prime Day volume. You make the case for a simpler design, and the team agrees on it. Late morning, you and a teammate prototype a new way to spot anomalies in price data, using AI tools to generate test cases and compare results across countries.
After lunch with the team, you meet with your product manager and the engineers behind price history on product pages and AI shopping assistants. Together you decide which new facts about past prices they need and how they will use them. You end the day turning that conversation into a design proposal and reviewing a teammate's code.
About the team
We own Amazon's record of what products have cost and the historical price data that helps confirm deals are real. Our work reaches customers through price history on product pages and AI shopping assistants, and it reaches sellers and vendors through the deals and promotions they create.
We are a growing engineering team in Amazon's worldwide pricing organization, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. We value simple designs, precise data definitions, and engineers who stay close to both the code and the customer outcome. Because we are bringing our systems together into one, you will have a direct hand in how the combined system is built.
- 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. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN, BC, Vancouver - 114,800.00 - 191,800.00 CAD annually