Software Dev Engineer II Search Science Data Infra

The Amazon Search team builds the search engine that powers Amazons world wide shopping experience. Whenever a customer searches or browses using an Amazon website or application we connect them to the products and services they are looking for. Search Science Data Infrastructure team is responsible for delivering high quality and fresh ML model training data and providing seamless access to all ML artifacts through managed Federated Data Lake infrastructure. This bigdata platform provides the ML training data to Amazon search ranking matching quality search economics and also powers livesite features including search suggestions query understanding spelling search result ranking and personalization. More than 350 teams across Amazon consume our datasets.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer you will: Design & Develop Design write code and ultimately deploy big data and machine learning services. These services define the foundation of our search R&D processes supporting science product development and production of the worlds largest product search engine. Possess good knowledge in performance large scale distributed system scalability system architecture and engineering best practices. Operational Excellence Obsess over operational excellence evaluate system performance security design system metrics and driving quality improvements Obsess over customer needs and satisfaction In this role youll work on the hardest problems building high quality architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs and built to handle Amazons world wide scale. Your expertise is deep and broad; youre hands on producing both detailed technical work and highlevel architectural designs.


3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Experience with machine learning applications and statistical learning.
Experience in developing and deploying large scale machine learning based applications into production including batch and realtime training data processing and data quality monitoring.

3 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
Experience with neural deep learning methods machine learning applications and statistical learning.
Experience in developing and deploying machine learning based applications into production including batch and realtime training data processing and data quality monitoring.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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 $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.