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About Amazon Music
Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale.
About the team
The Amazon Music Search engineering team's vision is to be the one-stop shop for all Amazon Music search and discovery needs across any of Amazon Music's client experiences.
Do you have a passion for solving complex problems in Search Do you enjoy creating efficient, responsive Search systems Do you want to help millions of people quickly find the music they enjoy, even if they don't know what they'd like to listen to in this moment
As a member of the Amazon Music Search team, you will be in charge of spearheading the endeavor to expand and enhance the ways through which consumers discover and interact with music on our audio and visual platforms (Alexa, mobile applications, FireTV, Roku, etc.)
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer in Amazon Music Search, you will be contributing in Data Ingestion, Indexing, Searching, Retrieval and Ranking. We have highly available distributed data stores that we use to index a variety of content that is made available for search, and also the core set of APIs that are used to search these stores. We are looking for someone who can help us launch the next generation of our search technology, to enable our customers to find the music they want, faster than ever!
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- 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
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience releasing highly scalable enterprise products full life cycle.
- Experience with critical, 24x7 systems.
- Experience with high throughput, multi-threaded systems.
- Experience implementing and consuming large scale web services.
- Experience with Lucene-based search, Elasticsearch, AOS, or Solr.
- Experience with AWS services is desirable.
Date Posted: 13/11/2024
Job ID: 100146039
