4 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and lead online feature-serving systems that deliver customer-behavior signals to personalization and ranking models within strict latency requirements.
- Design and scale near-real-time streaming pipelines that transform streams, clicks, and searches into model-ready features within seconds.
- Build unified, extensible datasets and enabler data products supporting downstream models, experiments, and science evaluations.
- Define data contracts and online/offline consistency practices that keep training and production serving synchronized.
- Own production reliability and operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, freshness and availability SLAs, and graceful degradation.
- Lead ambiguous, cross-team initiatives from design through launch and measured impact on model and customer outcomes.
- Partner with applied scientists and modeling teams to translate important signals into reliable, production-grade data.
- Raise engineering standards through design reviews, mentorship, and collaboration on engineering practices.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 5 years of programming experience with one or more software programming languages.
- At least 5 years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Preferred: at least 5 years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
- Basic Life and AD&D insurance, optional supplemental life plans, 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.
- The role is based in Seattle, Washington, USA; compensation also includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units, with benefits provided by Amazon.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.