Amazon Software Development Engineer Lucene Search Engine Team 

Ireland, Dublin 

794520293

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).As a member of this team you will get a chance to work on improving Search engine's binning and faceting capabilities to power navigation experiences on Amazon search. You will also get a chance to contribute to interact with open source Lucene community and contribute improvements/features to Apache Lucene.Key job 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.

- 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