Description

Amazon is looking for a Sr. Software Development Engineer for a new initiative within AGI to develop a multi-modal, web-scale information retrieval system to power several of Alexa’s customer experiences.

You will have an opportunity to directly impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of products that will be used every day by people you know. We're looking for someone passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, who demonstrates strong product ownership and is willing to think in new ways to solve difficult problems.

You will have track record of success in delivering new products, solving problems, and learning new technologies quickly. A commitment to teamwork, proactive approach to solving problems, and strong verbal and written communication skills are essential. Creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance products requires technical expertise, understanding of computer science fundamentals, and practical experience building efficient large-scale distributed systems. This person is comfortable delivering quality solutions in a fast-growing environment where priorities may change rapidly.

Key job responsibilities

• Build high-throughput, cost-effective data pipelines to support feature extraction and indexing for our web-scale Information Retrieval system

• Design and build cost-efficient distributed model training infrastructure

• Develop efficient, state-of-the-art streaming algorithms for processing large datasets (e.g. deduplication, topic clustering)

• Build on and maintain an existing code base as well as new components; maintain production code and contribute to deployment and QA processes

• Serve as technical lead for all stages of the software development cycle, including designing and developing new system architecture and improvements

• Participate in prioritization, estimation, and sprint planning

• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Boston, MA, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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

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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $134,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.