Senior Software Development Engineer - Amazon Music Machine Learning Amazon Music Machine LearningPersonalization

About Amazon Music

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans artists and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts concert livestreams to artist merch Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode and top adfree podcasts included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited ondemand access to 100 million songs including millions in HD Ultra HD and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexaenabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans artists and creators on a global scale.

Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Designing and implementing endtoend solutions
Influencing product decisions and scope
Identifying and addressing technical debt
Providing technical leadership guiding the team and mentoring teammates
Participating in code reviews
Staying up to date with industry trends

About the team
As a member of Amazon Music ML you will be responsible for leading the effort to invent and improve the ways that customers are engaged with recommendations in Amazon Music on all devices.

You will immerse yourself in a world where we work on classifying different forms of music and create interactive experiences to help users discover the music they are in the mood for.

You will be part of a squad in Berlin that improves existing customer experiences and incubates radically new experiences that multiply the impact of our machine learning capabilities.

You will collaborate with scientists and backend engineers on algorithms to pick the perfect tracks albums playlist and stations to play and build infinitely scalable data stores to help drive those experiences.

Our team is focused on building a personalized curated and seamless music experience. We want to help our customers discover upandcoming artists while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build systems that are distributed on a large scale spanning our music apps web player and voiceforward audio engagement on mobile and Amazon Echo devices powered by Alexa to support our customer base. Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their daytoday lives.

Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Experience in professional noninternship software development
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including objectoriented design

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

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