Software Development Engineer III, Special Projects

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is
part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big
leadership principle to the limits. We focus on creating entirely new products
and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. If
you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world,
this is the team for you.

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our
culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching
40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning
through programs that are local, regional, and global. Amazon’s culture of
inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team
members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer at the intersection of machine
learning and the life sciences, you will participate in developing exciting
products for customers. Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a
laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are
responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative,
entrepreneurial, startup-like environment.

Our team is for engineers who enjoy team work, cross-functional collaboration
and building new things. You need to be a fast learner able to independently
disambiguate requirements and deliver value to customers. We are offering
fast-pace, Agile environment with little bureaucracy and small operational load.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Knowledge of machine learning model architecture and inference

Responsibilities

• Deploy and execute ML models to deliver results for downstream customers.
• Design and implement cross-functional services processing large volumes of data.
• Ensure integrity of ML and data pipelines to maintain customer trust
• Efficiently collaborate with science teams to drive new initiatives.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level