Job opening - Senior Software Design Engineer- Classification System at Amazon (Seattle, WA)

Amazon’s Browse Software team handles all the infrastructure that supports Amazon's customers browsing experience. Amazon.com hosts Earth’s largest selection; with more than 100 million items in catalog. We typically add more than a million new products to our catalog every week from a wide range of merchants (large global enterprises to individual sellers). Our Product Classification system classifies these products into categories (e.g. cameras, jeans, sofas). Once the items are classified, shoppers can then browse/search for products in various Amazon.com categories. When customers search for specific products on Amazon’s search box, our Query Classification system directs customers to the search result page for most relevant categories.

We are looking for highly motivated engineers interested in building and maintaining our browse classification systems for products and search queries. Our two major goal are:

• Constantly improve e! xisting browse systems, increase scalability, decrease latency, improve manageability and reporting

• Create tools for other teams in Amazon, helping them to improve our browse classification data and automating this process as much as possible

You will have an opportunity to participate in two very different types of projects: building brand new, start-from-the-scratch internal tools for improving and automating our classification data; and resolving challenging, massive, enterprise level scalability and manageability problems.

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or Physics or EE
• 5+ years professional experience in software development
• Experience with Java/C++ and web technologies
• Solid background in coding, data structures, algorithms, object oriented design and designing for performance, scalability, availability

• Advanced degree in Computer science/Math/Physics
• Linux experience pr! eferred
• Knowledge of professional software engineering! practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
• Experience launching an entirely new website end to end
• Extensive experience in Design/Distributed Systems/Data Structures/Algorithms
  • Be able to thrive in a fast paced, high energy and fun work environment where we're agile (i.e. Scrum) and deliver value incrementally and frequently

If interested, please apply online at http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyClick.aspx?id=1527006-2668-8842

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