Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon

Overview

- 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 - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon’s Selection Monitoring team is responsible for making the biggest catalog on the planet even bigger. Our systems process billions of products to algorithmically find products not already sold on Amazon and programmatically add them to the Amazon catalog. We apply parallel processing, machine learning and deep learning algorithms to evaluate products and brands in order to identify and prioritize products and brands to be added to Amazon’s catalog. The datasets produced by our team are used by teams across Amazon to improve: product information, search and discoverability, pricing, and delivery experience. Our work involves building state-of-the-art Information Retrieval (IR) systems to mine the web and automatically create structured entities from un-structure/semi-structured data. We constantly stretch the boundaries of large scale distributed systems, Elastic Computing, Big Data, and SOA technologies to tackle challenges at Amazon’s global scale. Come join us in our journey to make everything – and yes, we do mean *everything* – that anyone wants to buy, available on Amazon! We are looking for SDEs with good technical knowledge, established background in engineering large scale software systems, and passion for solving challenging problems. The role demands a high-performing and flexible candidate who can take responsibility for success of the system and drive solutions from design to coding, testing, and deployment, to achieve results in a fast paced environment. The SDE II on this team will be playing a key role in solving complex problems and building innovative solutions to drive authoritative selection on Amazon platform. Candidate needs to have a high sense of ownership, ability to develop end to end solutions and improve customer experience. This role would expose you to solving problems of scale in the areas of data mining, machine learning algorithms, big data and distributed systems. As a member of the team, in this role, you will: · Work with other Sr. SDEs and Principal Engineers to drive the technical and architectural vision for Selection Monitoring’s mission-critical control plane systems. · Build scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available services that underpin our large scale data processing solutions. · Lead and mentor junior engineers, and drive best practices around design, coding, testability, and security. · Drive adoption of technologies and develop efficient algorithms that operate of large datasets. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bangalore, KA, IND