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Description:
Take Earth’s most customer-centric company. Mix in hundreds of millions of shoppers spending tens of billions of dollars annually, an exciting opportunity to build next-generation shopping experiences, Amazon’s tremendous computational resources, and our extensive e-Commerce experience. What do you get? The most exciting position in the industry.

About our team:
Our team enables innovation on behalf of our customers by making it easy to get the right content in front of the right customers at the right time. We build services that utilize a deep understanding of the customer, context, and content, to decide what to show on every page on Amazon. Our primary backend service returns dynamic content generated at runtime that is ranked by machine learning models. This unique architecture enables hundreds of teams across Amazon to launch new personalization experiments and have massive impact on millions of customers worldwide.

About our organization:
Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, distributed systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We run global experiments and our work has revolutionized e-commerce with features such as “Customers who bought this item also bought”, “Frequently bought together”, and “Keep shopping for …”. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow.

About the role:
As an engineer on the Percolate team, you will play a key role in designing, developing and building features on backend distributed services at scale. Since we are a central piece of the call stack for most pages at Amazon such as Homepage, Detail Page, and Search, you will be in a position to have massive impact on the company’s resiliency, latency, and depth of personalization. You’ll also have opportunities to work with the Personalization Tools team to drive self-service tool changes that enable new features for our internal customers.

About the team
Our team enables innovation on behalf of our customers by making it easy to get the right content in front of the right customers at the right time. We build services that utilize a deep understanding of the customer, context, and content, to decide what to show on every page on Amazon. Our primary backend service returns dynamic content generated at runtime that is ranked by machine learning models. This unique architecture enables hundreds of teams across Amazon to launch new personalization experiments and have massive impact on millions of customers worldwide.

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
– 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

USA, WA, Seattle