Who We Are And What We Do
Amazon’s affiliate marketing program, Amazon Associates, spans a large number of websites and blogs worldwide that create compelling original content to help customers make informed purchase decisions for new products and programs (e.g., Prime, Amazon Video, etc.) on Amazon. We run this multi-billion dollar, worldwide business by leveraging the technology and scientific base of Amazon, while maintaining an end-to-end ownership for providing content building tools, attribution tracking, payments, rich insights and recommendations to customers at scale. Cutting edge technology and algorithms including statistical modeling, machine learning, and data mining are at the core of our business. There is a large R&D component to our work, and strong engineering skills together with sound business understanding and an appetite for innovation are highly valued.
We are looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to build, scale and operate intelligent recommendation and insights solutions to deliver impact, and drive growth of the Associates Program worldwide. The Creator Recommendations and Delivery team is an enabler for Amazon Associates’ rapid growth and offers a singular solution to manage sharing actionable recommendations, insights, tips, etc. for creators worldwide.
Why It Matters and Why You Will Love It
Amazon and Associates Program are growing at an incredible rate. To keep up with that growth we must continually innovate to define and build different ways to make creators successful by empowering them with personalized insights and ideas to create engaging content for shoppers. To do that we need to rearchitect and scale our systems with new products, processes, ML models while growing existing associates in the program. You’ll get an opportunity to work across all areas, including distributed computing, large-scale system design, machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. You’ll work with massive data sets and in rapid experimentation mode. You’ll use big data, machine learning and analytical techniques to design and implement scalable solutions for business problems. You’ll be part of a growing, fast paced, and fun team. Engineers in Amazon Associates team work across technologies, and deliver Internet scale solutions that focus on high throughput, low latency, high stability and load tolerance. We not only build a lot of new products from scratch to help drive growth but also passionately maintain our existing.
You will help answer many interesting problems, including but not limited to: How do you identify the best products out of millions for content creation? How do we combine explicit information about an associates’s preferences (products with referred sales) with implicit sources (what customers referred by associates purchased)? How should we use Machine Learning to build optimal recommender systems? How can we exploit the rich structure of Amazon’s catalog to build semantic recommendations? How can we optimize our algorithms for new product launches?
Scope of Role
As a Software Development Engineer, you will design, code, troubleshoot, and support scalable machine-learning pipelines, online recommendation services, and nudging mechanisms. You will work closely with applied scientists to optimize the performance of machine-learning models and infrastructure, and implement end-to-end solutions. You will work on projects that require innovative and creative thinking, and deep technical problem solving. You’ll have ownership, not just responsibility; and you’ll contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation and testing. The ideal candidate for our team is a thinker and a doer: someone who loves sophisticated algorithms and mathematical precision, but at the same time enjoys implementing real systems, and is motivated by the prospect of spectacular business returns.
This role will have a profound impact on millions of associates across the world. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, this role is for you.
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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.Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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.