Sr Software Dev Engineer

Do you like to solve the problem of searching for needles in a haystack? Do you want to build large-scale reliable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and write interactive tools that helps identify safety issues from billions of products and take corrective actions? Are you seeking an environment where you can apply state-of-the-art computer science techniques, data-driven decision making, and problem solving skills in a real world setting? We have interesting problems for you to solve.
We build systems that proactively detect and eliminate product safety issues to ensure our customers are safe and our sellers are compliant. Our engineers are top-notch software developers who love listening to the customers, working as a team, and proactively taking the lead whenever necessary. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating and delivering software and automated solutions to enable products selection that are compliant across different countries, have direct impact to safety of the customers and associates. In this role, you will have an opportunity to own, design, and develop software services that interacts with Computer Vision and Machine Learning technologies. You will have influence on subsystem design and help build a team culture around practices that are critical to a quality product. Your work would be cross-functional with other teams in Amazon, including Computer Vision, Machine Learning, FC Operations, etc.
We are looking for someone with a go-getter attitude who is ready to own a problem and passionately drive successful implementation. We want someone who is a quick learner and ready to learn and adopt latest computer science technologies.

Basic Qualifications
– 8+ years of solid industry experience

– Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

– Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design

– Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis

– Solid experience in C++ or Java (expert in at least one)

– Solid experience in Perl, Ruby, or Python (expert in at least one)

– Solid UNIX or Linux experience.

– Experience with scaling and performance of large systems

– Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills

– Obsession with quality and customer experience – Attention to detail coupled with ability to think abstractly

– Proven technical leadership experience

Preferred Qualifications
– Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

– Prior experience with building and supporting live high-volume production systems

-Prior experience working with Machine Learning models

– Understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and experience in building services.

– Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical customers in order to understand ambiguous problems and articulate technical challenges and solutions to complex problem

– Project management – Agile development methodologies