Amazon Software Development Manager Search Engine Technologies 

United States, Massachusetts, Boston 

421602156

Our service is designed to support both lexical and semantic matching using state-of-the-art (SOTA) approximate near neighbor (ANN) search on learned vector representations (embeddings).
Key job responsibilities
The SDM builds a roadmap for new Search features, working with partner teams to understand requirements (e.g., to build support for new types of bi-encoder models, or support for new features), keeps up-to-date with developments in the Semantic Search space to rapidly integrate upstream features into our search engine (e.g., leveraging vector quantization to improve indexing efficiency), triages and prioritizes incoming partner team requests, optimizes and improves team oncall and support processes, and plans for new project development.
A day in the life

- 5+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 3+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Bachelor's degree

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience with large scale information retrieval systems, preferably experience with large scale Apache Lucene installations
- Experience with developing improvements in cutting edge semantic matching search algorithms