Software Development Engineer - Search Knowledge team (Boston) Amazon
Boston, MA

Job Description

We are seeing a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineer to join Search Knowledge team in Boston, MA.

Search Knowledge is a part of Search Shopping Technologies (SST) the engine that powers the Amazon.com website and responds to tens of billions of queries per day, searching through terabytes of data in milliseconds. We design, build, and deploy high performance, fault-tolerant distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon customers every day.

The Search Knowledge team is responsible for building a platform that will enhance the customer experience by providing additional information about products - a vast database of all knowledge about all products in existence and how they are related to each other and to the rest of the world. Our platform will help collect, store, and search that knowledge, and present the results from that interconnected database in response to customer queries.

Come join our team in Boston, International Center of Higher Education, Home of MIT and Harvard, Famous Technological Hub, and World Leader in Innovation.

Responsibilities

* Design, build and deploy, in a team of top-notch software engineers, the Search Knowledge Platform at Amazon - including its back-end and front-end components.
* Work with truly cutting edge ideas and technology: learn and apply the latest in systems research to solving very large scale problems.
* Directly participate in setting a vision and objectives for your team's work in alignment with business and market needs
* Have access to the vast technical tools and resources of Amazon.com