Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon needs a rockstar software engineer to join the Amazon Devices development team in Seattle, WA. We materially impact Amazon’s device businesses by forecasting demand and managing supply of all Amazon Devices using ML, big data and deep learning.
We are a growing team continues to operate in "start up" mode to prove new business ideas, while strengthening our core ML platforms.

About you:

You're a seasoned engineer looking for a career where you'll be able to innovate, to deliver, and to influence. You are passionate about start-up opportunities, where you succeed by fearlessly testing new ideas and rapidly iterating on technical solutions. You have a demonstrable track record of success delivering high quality software products and services at scale. You are a coding ninja with strong OO design skills, in-depth knowledge of web protocols (HTTP/XML/REST) and distributed system architectures based on SOA. You are a team guru who leads and mentors junior engineers and consults product owners.

About us together:

We will work together on defining features and our overall product roadmap. You will be a technical leader who owns core services and user applications. You will drive system architecture and establish sound software development practices. You will be writing code, participating in code reviews and creating documentation. We will dive deep into customer contributed data and system operational metrics identifying areas of improvement. We'll make tough decisions together, but we'll all understand why.

Some technologies and problem spaces we'll be working on:

Scalability – We will leverage Amazon’s infrastructure to build systems and design algorithms that are able to handle these large amounts of data. Where traditional solutions fail we develop approximate, distributed, and streaming algorithms.

MACHINE LEARNING – We will use the latest machine learning and predictive modeling technologies to extract information valuable to our business. We will look for patterns, train thousands of models, and summarize data to gain insights about customer product needs and experiences. We continually evaluate the effectiveness of our solutions and ways to improve them.

If you are the kind of engineer who is thrilled to solve hard technical problems building highly valuable applications that manage the business for our customers.

It's an exciting time for at Amazon and especially within our team. We are rebuilding our systems from the ground up. If you want to design, develop and implement systems at scale now and are looking for a challenge, now is a great time to talk to us!

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· BS in Computer Science or equivalent
· 3+ years of industry experience.
· 3+ years experience with at least one modern object-oriented programming language such as Java or C++.
· 3+ years working in computer science with data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
· 2+ years leading and mentoring other development team members