About the position
Are you interested in working at the Amazon Store scale? Come join us as we are building the tech stacks that enable the next generation of shopping experiences that millions of Amazon customers use every day. Our team owns the largest content marketing system at Amazon driving billions of dollars through marketing sales and Prime memberships. We power content to millions of customers through Amazon website, mobile, email, and other devices across shopping, streaming and reading experiences. The Content System at Amazon is looking for talented Software Development Engineers with a passion for technologies and services that filter, rank, select, and deliver optimal curated content to Amazon Shoppers across Retail websites and devices. We empower discovery, simplify purchase decisions, and create engaging shopping and Prime membership experiences, handling over hundreds of billions content requests daily and driving tens of billions aOPS annually. As a Software Development Engineer, you will get to collaborate with senior engineers and applied scientists across a large cross-section of the technical stacks. This role provides you with autonomy and ownership of decisions, working backwards directly from customers. There is ample of opportunity for growth due to the high visibility work, and presence of senior tech leaders for guidance and mentorship. You have the opportunity build on top of native AWS services and leverage GenAI, machine learning, and computer vision to enhance the content creation and distribution process.
Responsibilities
- You design infrastructure and workflows that support delivering AI enabled features along content lifecycle to improve the Amazon customer experiences.
- You take ownership, discussing and delivering on deep technical details with other engineers and scientists on and across teams, collaborating with them to solve challenging problems.
- You create plans, communicate requirements, negotiate priorities, and clarify what success looks like.
- You define, deliver, and/or implement a variety of high quality, correct, customer focused technical solutions.
- You provide clear and concise verbal and written communication.
- You facilitate dialogue, asking productive questions, providing recommendations, and fostering a shared understanding to identify risks and meet business needs.
- You participate in reviews of your peers' work and provide useful and actionable input when submitted.
- You raise the bar on operational excellence.
Requirements
- 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
Nice-to-haves
- 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
Benefits
- Equity
- Sign-on payments
- Medical benefits
- Financial benefits
- Other forms of compensation
