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Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon Search
Amazon
2 - 5 years
Bengaluru
Posted: 26/05/2025
Job Description
The Amazon Search team creates customer
- focused search and advertising solutions and technologies.
Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories, Amazon Search services go to work.
We design, develop, and deploy high performance, fault
- tolerant distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon customers every day.
Our Search Relevance team works to maximize the quality and effectiveness of the search experience for visitors to Amazon websites worldwide.
Amazon has grown rapidly and will continue to do so in foreseeable future.
Providing a high quality search experience is a unique challenge as Amazon expands to new customers, countries, categories, and product lines.
We are seeking software engineer to join the Relevance India team.
This team’s charter is to increase the pace at which Amazon expands and improve the search experience at launch.
In practice, we aim to create infrastructure and build innovating solutions that reduces the time and effort needed for expansions and improve the search experience on the day of the launch.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement production level code that serves search requests.
- Own the full development cycle: design, development, impact assessment, A/B testing (including interpretation of results) and production deployment.
- Design and apply data driven and machine learning techniques to provide optimal ranking.
- Develop new ranking features and techniques building upon the latest results from the research community.
- Collaborate with other engineers and scientists within to find technical solutions to complex design problems.
- Participate in aspects of the R&D process, from experimenting with new ideas to exploring new techniques.
- Get exposure to large scale use of various AWS components such EC2, S3, EMR, SQS, SNS, etc.
- Take ownership.
Understand the needs of various search teams, distil those into coherent projects, and implement them with an eye on long
- term impact.
- Be a leader.
Use your expertise to set a high bar for the team, mentor team members, set the tone for how to take on and deliver on large impossible
- sounding projects.
- Be curious.
You will work alongside systems engineers, machine learning scientists, and data analysts.
Your effectiveness and impact will depend on discussing problems with and learning from them.
Basic Qualifications
- 2+ 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
- Solid understanding of fundamental algorithms, data structures, system design, and complexity analysis.
- Experience with web
- scale data processing using Spark or similar technologies.
- Experience with various components of a Search or Ads pipeline such as Query Understanding, Matching, and Relevance is a plus.
- Ability to discuss complex topics with both technical and non
- technical audiences.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how
- we
- hire/accommodations for more information.
If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
About Company
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Initially focused on selling books online, it quickly expanded into a broad range of products and services, including electronics, cloud computing (via Amazon Web Services), streaming, and artificial intelligence. Amazon has revolutionized online shopping with fast delivery, personalized recommendations, and a subscription service called Amazon Prime. It is one of the world's largest and most valuable companies, with a significant impact on retail, technology, and logistics.
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