Within Amazon Search, our team has a mission to help customers efficiently find anything they are looking for. This charter requires us to build innovative ranking solutions that operate at Amazon's scale, across diverse product categories, and focus on our customers' long-term satisfaction. We dive deep to figure out idiosyncrasies of how customers shop for groceries, make purchase decisions for their business, browse videos, or choose e-books to read, then we turn these learnings into innovative machine learned ranking solutions to improve customer satisfaction and business metrics.In this role you will leverage your strong engineering background to help build the next generation of our ranking model development and assessment framework, harnessing and explaining rich data at Amazon scale, and providing automated insights to ensure the quality and operational stability of machine learned rankers that impact millions of customers every day. This role requires a pragmatic problem solver comfortable with ambiguity, with deep expertise in data processing at scale. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in data processing at scale in customer-facing applications. Additionally, we are seeking candidates with strong rigor in engineering, deep curiosity and interest for applied sciences, creativity, and great judgment.Joining this team, you'll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN). We provide a highly customer-centric, team-oriented environment in our offices located in Palo Alto, California.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Palo Alto, CA, USABASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 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 languagePREFERRED 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 equivalentAmazon 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.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/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.
