Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

The Percolate team is responsible for Amazon's content optimization platform. We build the systems and algorithms that decide what content to show to a given customer and how to show it.

We are a team of engineers and ML scientists, working on one of the largest scale machine learning systems in the company, and build real-time, low-latency recommender and ranking systems. We work on cutting edge technologies including deep learning, reinforcement learning, and multi-armed bandits, applying it to domains including content optimization, customer understanding and targeting, generating recommendations content, advertising and more. We are uniquely positioned in the company to have large direct impact, driving billions of dollars of new revenue per year.

If you are excited at working on designing new algorithms and machine learning models, massive data pipelines, working on high performance distributed systems, and want to have massive impact on millions of customers, this is the job for you. You are a blend of engineer/scientist, enthusiastic, self-driven with strong business instincts, have clear communication skills, and a track record of delivering great products. If that sounds like you, please talk to us! We are building the next generation optimization and intent understanding system that powers the biggest internet retailer on earth, and we hope you will join us!

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
· Strong CS fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
· Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, C, C++, C#
· Excellent problem solving skills
· Excellent written and oral communication skills
· 2+ years of professional software development experience