Job Title:
The Lucene Search Engine team designs and develops query serving and indexing components of Amazon product search stack.
Job Summary:
Our mission-critical service is built with open-source Lucene at its core. The service is responsible for matching customer keywords to products in Amazon's catalog, applying business rules to narrow down the selection and rank selected products using sophisticated algorithms all under a strict latency budget.
Key Responsibilities:
* Improve the binning and faceting capabilities of Search Engine.
* Dive deep into search engine internals to identify opportunities for improving performance and efficiency of Search Engine.
* Collaborate with partner teams to turn feature requests into requirements and work with Senior and Principal engineers to define project roadmap.
* Own the end-to-end delivery on a medium complexity project.
* Contribute to open source Lucene and bring latest advancements in Lucene in house.
* Design and develop tooling to improve operational efficiency.
* Participate in oncall and maintain a high bar on operational excellence.
Requirements:
* Experience (non-internship) in professional software development.
* Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
* Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
* Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
* Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
About Us:
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills.