SDE II: Personalization & Recommendation at Scale

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 158,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer to help personalize Prime Video recommendations at scale, delivering relevant content to millions of users. You will build services that rank content across home and browse experiences and work with researchers to productionize models.

You will design retrieval and ranking systems within tight latency budgets and contribute end-to-end from prototyping to live services in an agile environment, collaborating with Personalization and Discovery teams

Qualifications

• 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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 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

Responsibilities

• Build and scale the services that select and rank what customers see across Prime Video's home and browse experiences, at millions of requests per second.
• Design retrieval and ranking systems that search the full Prime Video catalogue and personalize results per customer inside a strict latency budget.
• Take work from an ambiguous problem statement through design, launch, A/B experiment, and measured customer impact.
• Partner directly with applied scientists to move models from offline evaluation into production serving.
• Improve the platform teams build on: shared retrieval paths, configuration, and experimentation tooling.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

Skills

Software development

OOP Design

Distributed systems

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Foreign equivalent

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer to help personalize Prime Video recommendations at scale, delivering relevant content to millions of users. You will build services that rank content across home and browse experiences and work with researchers to productionize models.

You will design retrieval and ranking systems within tight latency budgets and contribute end-to-end from prototyping to live services in an agile environment, collaborating with Personalization and Discovery teams