DESCRIPTION

Do you want to be part of a new team at Amazon that is making history? Do you want to build technology and new science that millions of people will use? Are you excited about working on large scale Machine Learning based low-latency and distributed technologies?

We are embarking on a multi-year journey to improve the shopping experience for customers globally. Amazon Search team creates customer-focused search solutions and technologies that makes shopping delightful and effortless for our customers. Our goal is to understand what customers are looking for in whatever language happens to be their choice at the moment and help them find what they need in Amazon’s vast catalog of billions of products. As Amazon expands to new geographies, we are faced with the unique challenge of maintaining the bar on Search Quality due to the diversity in user preferences, multilingual search and data scarcity in new locales.

We are looking for a passionate, talented and inventive SDE who is great at building low-latency large-scale system and data/ML pipelines, analyzing large datasets and conducting A/B experiments. You will:

We are an inclusive employer and value diversity at Amazon. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Key job responsibilities
Design and develop low-latency fault-tolerant solutions for Search.
Build Machine Learning and Data Processing pipelines.
Process and analyze large amounts of data to discover patterns, find opportunities, and contribute to seize these opportunities.
Work closely with Machine Learning experts to identify improvements and remove obstacles that keep the team from performing at its best.
Work with technical and non-technical business owners to get things done.
Your solutions should work for all languages that Amazon supports and will be used in all Amazon locales world-wide. You will develop scalable science and engineering solutions that work successfully in production. You will work with leaders to develop a strategic vision and long term plans to improve search globally.
We are growing our collaborative group of engineers and applied scientists by expanding into new areas.

A day in the life
This is a position on Global Search Quality team in Bangalore (India). We are moving fast to change the way Amazon search works. Together with a multi-disciplinary team you will work on building solutions with NLP/ML/DL at its core. Along the way, you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people. Come and join us as we invent new ways to delight Amazon customers.

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

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