Software Dev Engineer II, Search Science Data Infra

Amazon; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented Software Development Engineer II to join their Search Science Data Infrastructure team. In this role, you'll design and develop cutting-edge big data and machine learning services that power a world-renowned shopping experience. You'll tackle complex challenges while ensuring operational excellence and delivering high-quality solutions. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to innovative projects that impact millions of users globally. Join a diverse and inclusive workplace where your expertise will help shape the future of search technology and enhance customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience with a focus on machine learning.
• Experience in developing large scale machine learning applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop big data and machine learning services.
• Ensure operational excellence and evaluate system performance.

Skills

Software Development

Machine Learning

Statistical Learning

System Design

Programming Languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Software Dev Engineer II, Search Science Data Infra

Job ID: 2915100 | Amazon.com Services LLC

The Amazon Search team builds the search engine that powers Amazon's 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 big-data platform provides the ML training data to Amazon search ranking, matching quality, search economics and also powers live-site 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:

1. 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 world’s largest product search engine.
2. Operational Excellence: Obsess over operational excellence, evaluate system performance, security, design system metrics and drive quality improvements.
3. Obsess over customer needs and satisfaction.

In this role, you’ll work on the hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs and built to handle Amazon's world wide scale. Your expertise is deep and broad; you’re hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.

BASIC 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
• 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 real-time training data processing and data quality monitoring.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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
• 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 real-time training data processing and data quality monitoring.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, 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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on 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.