Senior Software Development Engineer, Internal Search, Knowledge Tech
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
We are looking for an Sr. SDE to build the most comprehensive knowledge repository in Amazon for search and discovery. With dozens of disparate tools and technology being leveraged by teams across AWS and Consumer, your goal will be connect users with information they need while removing noise from search results. This will include combining organizational and ownership data, documents, videos, build artifacts, system information, websites, wiki pages, and stitching them together. Your goal is to lead the development and growth of knowledge sharing and provide an accessible experience for all users. You will work directly with AWS search teams and partner teams that own wiki, sage answer engine, and broadcast videos. You will empower users with the tools and technology to share information, discover artifacts, ascertain ownership, find run-books, emulate best practices, and simplify creation and management of content. You will partner with engineers across Amazon Retail, Digital, and AWS to align on a strategy and goals for the organization and build mechanisms to enable knowledge discovery and data ingestion. You will lead your team’s technical direction and strategy with the support of your manager, technical program managers and trainers. You will build tools and processes that enable system owners to index new content, search for existing content, and easily organize and manage content. You will develop closed-loop mechanisms and reporting to audit your teams infrastructure efficiency, maintain software hygiene, and ensure future scalability of your services. You will explore using generative AI to enrich content that optimizes its discovery.
The ideal candidate is excited by the challenge to improve Amazon’s search and discovery and knowledge sharing. You are someone who loves to deep dive problems and makes intelligent decisions at scale. You thrive in an environment where the problem is not precisely written down, and are comfortable setting your own path. You will have significant influence on the overall strategy by helping define features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that improve accuracy and completeness.
Some info about this opportunity:
- Your work directly impacts the experience of all Amazon employees
- You will work with technical leaders, product managers, engineers, and data scientists - with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership
- We're looking for candidates that have acted as a technical leader and built high-performance, scalable, and robust systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment
As a Sr. SDE in Internal Search you will:
- Work with multiple developers, project managers, and data scientists focused on creating an inclusive culture across all of Amazon’s technology
- Own development of your products end-to-end
- Provide technical direction to engineers, even beyond your own team
- Contribute to short and long-term roadmaps for the business
- Drive continual improvements to the efficiency and flexibility of the compliance/auditing platforms while keeping an extremely high bar for employee trust, performance, and availability.
Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
- Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
- Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
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.
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.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/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.
