Sr Software Development Engineer - Data Infra Search Ranking

The Amazon Search team creates powerful customerfocused search and advertising solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories Amazon Search services go to work. We design develop and deploy high performance faulttolerant distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon customers every day. Our Search Relevance team works to maximize the quality and effectiveness of the search experience for visitors to Amazon websites worldwide.

Amazons large scale brings with it unique problems to solve in designing testing and deploying relevance deeplearned models. We are seeking a strong software engineer to join the Search Relevance team and build data infrastructure to cater the needs to build deep learned models.

In this role you will:

* Design develop and deploy ML Data infrastructure for search ranking at Amazon scale.
* Be curious. You will work alongside systems engineers machine learning scientists and data analysts. Your effectiveness and impact will depend on discussing problems with and learning from them.
* Take ownership and understand the needs of various search teams (including search science teams) distil those into coherent projects and implement them with an eye on longterm impact. You will see the fruits of your efforts used by hundreds of millions of users.
* Be a leader. You will use your expertise to set a high bar for the team mentor team members set the tone for how to take on and deliver on large scale complex projects.
* Be ambitious. You will find and eagerly tackle hard problems. The phrase cant be done should energize you.
* Be customer focused. You will work backwards from customer problems figure out elegant solutions and implement them for speed and scalability.
* Join a highly talented team of Engineers working on solving interesting problems in a fun and collaborative environment.
* Get exposure to large scale use of various AWS components such EC2 S3 EMR Sagemaker etc.
* Have access to the vast technical tools and resources of Amazon. Joining this team youll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment while leveraging the resources of Amazon (AMZN) one of the worlds leading internet companies.



5 years of noninternship professional software development experience
5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
Experience in machine learning data mining information retrieval statistics or natural language processing

5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit https://www.aboutamazon/workplace/employeebenefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.