Every day, hundreds of millions of customers come to Amazon Search looking for something, sometimes they know exactly what they want, sometimes they're just browsing. The Search Experience team at Amazon Shopping builds the visual discovery experiences that bridge that gap. We design and ship interactive product grouping widgets - curated collections, shoppable style carousels, and themed showcases - that surface the right products in the right context, at the right moment. Our features are rendered billions of times daily on one of the highest-traffic pages on the internet, directly driving engagement and purchase decisions. We operate at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, applied science, and rapid customer-facing experimentation.

Our team is looking for a Software Development Engineer who is excited to build things customers see and use every day. In this role, you will design, build, and ship customer-facing discovery features at massive scale. You'll work closely with applied scientists, product managers, and UX designers to take ideas from conception through experimentation to production. Your code will directly impact how customers discover products.

Key job responsibilities
-Design and implement scalable services that power customer-facing discovery widgets, handling billions of daily impressions
-Build data pipelines and integrations to source, rank, and render product groupings in real time
-Partner with applied scientists to integrate ML models into production serving systems
-Write high-quality, well-tested code and participate in design and code reviews
-Own and operate your services — contribute to operational excellence, monitor health metrics, and participate in on-call rotations
-Run and analyze A/B experiments to measure customer engagement and revenue impact
-Collaborate cross-functionally with science, product, and UX teams to define and deliver new features
-Collaborate with partner teams to unblock their integrations, reduce friction in the development workflow, and ensure their changes meet platform standards

A day in the life
You might start the morning reviewing metrics from a recently launched experiment on a new widget layout. Mid-morning, you pair with a scientist to design the API contract for a new ranking signal. After lunch, you're writing a design doc for a new discovery experience variant, getting feedback from your tech lead. Later, you debug a latency regression in the rendering pipeline, push a fix, and verify the improvement in production. You end the day reviewing a teammate's code and discussing architecture trade-offs for an upcoming feature.

Basic qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications

• 3+ 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
• Exposure to data pipelines, experimentation frameworks, or ML-powered product features

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually