With hundreds of millions of customers and billions of products with thousands attributes, Amazon has real big data. We need smart and creative engineers to help design and develop the next version of our knowledge system. Using automation and machine learning you can help realize the future of the Amazon retail searching, exploring, and browsing experiences. As a member of the product knowledge team, based in Seattle, you will play a key role in the establishment of a new platform, with opportunities to create enormous benefit for our customers and Amazon. You will take academic research from theory to production implementation by overcoming performance, scalability, and resiliency challenges. You should enjoy optimization through rapid experimentation, have extremely high standards, and strong ability to implement in the face of ambiguity. Expertise in specialized areas such as Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Graph Processing, Search, Recommendation Systems,
· A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience; · 5+ years of Software Development experience; · Proven track record of building large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality distributed systems and software products · 2+ years experience managing complex projects, with significant bottom-line impact · 2+years software development experience in Linux, Java, AWS, S3, SQS · Ability to effectively performance test and tune using benchmarking and research and benchmark Amazon technology against other competing systems in the