Amazon · 2 months ago
Sr. Software Dev Engineer, AGI - Web information retrieval
Sunnyvale, California, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$151K/yr - $262K/yr
5+ years expAmazon is at the forefront of transformative AI, seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer with Rust expertise to develop a web-scale information retrieval system. The role involves building data pipelines, optimizing algorithms, and collaborating with machine learning teams to enhance the search engine's capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Build high-throughput, cost-effective data pipelines to support feature extraction and indexing for our web-scale Information Retrieval (IR) system
Develop and optimize the core algorithms and ranking models that power the search engine's ability to retrieve and rank relevant results for user queries
Design and implement efficient data structures and indexing techniques to store and retrieve massive amounts of web data and content
Optimize the performance, scalability, and reliability of the search engine's core components, including query parsing, retrieval, ranking, and result rendering
Collaborate with machine learning teams to integrate and deploy advanced machine learning models for query understanding, ranking, and personalization
Develop and maintain the control plane systems that manage and orchestrate the IR system infrastructure, including the distributed compute clusters, storage systems, and networking components
Design and implement real-time updates and freshness mechanisms to ensure the I engine reflects the latest web content and user behavior
Develop efficient, state-of-the-art streaming algorithms for processing large datasets (e.g. deduplication, topic clustering.)
Participate in the design and implementation of real-time updates and freshness mechanisms to ensure the search engine reflects the latest web content and user behavior
Qualification
Required
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
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
Experience programming with Rust
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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