3 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead development and technical strategy for IMDb search features using AWS OpenSearch Service, including index design, relevance tuning, query performance, and scaling.
- Own the architecture of significant discovery platform areas such as search and retrieval, ranking, or lists.
- Lead complex multi-engineer projects through scoping, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.
- Build intelligent retrieval, ML-powered ranking, API contracts, versioned SLOs, typed SDKs, and platform capabilities for downstream and AI-agent consumers.
- Own alarms, telemetry, runbooks, COE practices, reliability, and operational improvements for critical services.
- Review designs and code, resolve architecture and systemic operational issues, and drive engineering best practices.
- Mentor engineers and partner with product and program management on the discovery roadmap.
- Develop AI-native platform practices including steering files, structured knowledge, and agent-readable interfaces.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 6 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- At least 6 years of leading design or architecture for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Preferred: 6+ years of full software development life cycle experience covering coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred: Experience building search, discovery, ranking, recommendation, or information retrieval systems at scale.
- Preferred: Hands-on experience with AWS OpenSearch Service, Elasticsearch, or similar search technologies, including index design, mappings, analyzers, query optimization, relevance tuning, sharding, and cluster performance.
- Preferred: Experience with GraphQL, REST APIs, or similar API technologies and platform or self-service integration paths such as typed SDKs and versioned contracts.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, and a medical advice line.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the overall Amazon package.
- The position is based in Santa Monica, California.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.