Software Engineer - Big Data, Personalization

Job summary
Our mission at Demeter, a team in Amazon’s Personalization organization, is to empower Amazon customers to make more informed purchasing decisions. We do this by creating an authoritative knowledge base for every product in the world. We build data pipelines that deploy advanced machine learning models to harvest product attribute information from externally-available web pages, and publish our knowledge to help our partners create better shopping experiences.

As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will:
· Team up with our engineering team, including Senior and Principal engineers, to design and build data pipelines that process terabytes of data using the latest AWS technologies.
· Collaborate with our team of leading Applied Scientists to develop and improve state-of-the-art machine-learning techniques such as web information extraction using graph neural networks (GNN) and deep learning.
· Influence management team on tactical decisions and strategic direction.

This job might be for you if you enjoy:
· Working in the big data space to build machine learning pipelines.
· Getting up to speed quickly on new science concepts and engineering technologies.
· Finding clarity and direction to ambiguous problems.
· Communicating your ideas, opinions, and observations in a clear manner.
· Developing your engineering skills and learning best practices by working with your engineering team, including Senior and Principal engineers.

Basic Qualifications

· Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
· Bachelor's degree in computer science related fields OR 1+ years equivalent experience in software development

Preferred Qualifications

· Track record building and delivering software systems that meet aggressive timelines.
· Experience working with customers to define, gather, and refine requirements to ambiguous problems.
· Familiarity with technologies like AWS EMR, Athena, Step Functions, and Sagemaker.
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
· Strong coding practices, including good design documentation, unit testing, peer code reviews, and a preference for agile methods.


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