Software Development Engineer, Amazon Photos Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Take the earth's most customer-centric company and the opportunity to use your software skills to build and improve algorithms and systems to define the product and features we build for hundreds of millions of customers. What do you get? The most exciting software job in the industry - PERIOD.

Amazon Photos is helping customers enjoy and share their most cherished digital assets. We are building products that make it easy for customers to protect what matters to them, no matter the device or platform that content lives on. We are defining and delivering new products and features that will change how people view the cloud.

Who you are:

If you are a strong software engineer with a background in scalable distributed systems, who is passionate about working with massive amounts of data to improve the lives of millions of customers, then this is the right opportunity for you.

You will work with a team of highly skilled and motivated engineers and scientists, who are building the next generation of Amazon Photos products at Amazon, using machine learning and deep learning. As part of your job, you will deal with large amounts of training data, define the models, rapidly prototype new models that meet stringent performance requirements, perform offline and online testing, push these models to production, and define the direction our product, performance, and features take.

What you will do here:

* Build scalable, high-performance software for productionalizing recommendations models
* Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon's historical business data to help automate and optimize key features and processes
* Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, validation and implementation
* Research and use statistical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems
* Work closely with scientists and engineering teams to create and deploy new features
* Work closely with business owners to optimize various business operations
* Track general business activity and provide clear, compelling management reporting on a regular basis

What you will get from us:

A great team to work with and the chance to build a premier service at an attested top tier company. You will be part of a startup like culture with the stability of an established industry leader. You will get support and resources from some of the smartest people in the industry to continue your personal growth. You will build software that will improve people's lives.