Sr. Software Development Engineer, Shopping Innovation and Personalization, Amazon Devices

The Amazon Devices Shopping Innovation and Personalization team is looking for a Sr. SDE to lead two major experiment platforms (MVT and Ravio). You will work on platforms that leverages a wide variety of technologies across machine learning, AWS, and front end frameworks to build hugely impactful features for millions of customers all over the world.

We build personalized features for every page on Amazon to help customers understand the products offered by our category. This is a new category with plenty of challenges in customer education, product setup and installation, Alexa connections, and product discoverability. This is one of the most impactful space for Amazon Devices with loads of potential to leverage GenAI and we are looking for eager engineers to reshape the tech. We have an ambitious goal to provide personalized experiences tailored to each customer.

Successful candidates have a strong desire to learn, embrace working on the full stack, and have a keen eye for designing highly scalable, available, and maintainable systems. We are particularly interested in candidates with a background in building scalable, personalized shopping experiences. If you love learning, growing, and writing elegant software, then Amazon Devices Shopping Personalization and Innovation is the team for you.

Key job responsibilities

- Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have impact on our global customer base. You'll bring a passion for innovation, data, search, analytics, and distributed systems. You'll also:

- Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.

- Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.

- Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.

- Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.

A day in the life

- As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you'll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects.

You'll also:

- Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.

- Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.

- Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.

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. 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 $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.

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