Senior Software Development Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

SDEs at Amazon work on real world problems on a global scale, own their systems end to end and influence the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions customers around the world. At Amazon an SDE can expect to design flexible and scalable solutions, and work on some of the most complex challenges in large-scale computing by utilizing your skills in data structures, algorithms, and object oriented programming. Coming to Amazon gives you the opportunity to work on a small development team in our many Kindle organization.

The Kindle Content Inspection and Automation (KCIA) team is searching for a strong individual contributor in software development. As a senior software development engineer (SDE), you will build systems to analyze text, images, video, and audio. The position demands a very hands-on candidate with passion for solving hard problems.

The role of SDE includes but is not limited to

* Guide our team's technical strategies, vision, and architecture.
* Solve a breadth of technical problems involving applied science, back-end software engineering, and user interface development.
* Design and build software that is highly available, performant, scalable, and extensible.
* Build scalable algorithms for analyzing content
* Knowledge in machine learning concepts, tools and implementations
* Evaluate internal and external technologies to solve difficult business challenges while balancing long term and short term needs
* Evaluate internal and external technologies to solve difficult business challenges while balancing long term and short term needs
* Deep dive on existing technical issues and provide comprehensive solutions
* Deep dive on existing technical issues and provide comprehensive solutions
* Successfully launch software that improves a major portion of a product or applications

We are looking for candidates who are passionate about delivering a world-class Kindle experience to our customers.

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