Software Development Engineer, Internal Search, Knowledge Tech

We are looking for an SDE to build the most comprehensive knowledge repository in Amazon for search and discovery. With dozens of disparate tools and technology being leveraged by teams across AWS and Consumer, your goal will be connect users with information they need while removing noise from search results. This will include combining organizational and ownership data, documents, videos, build artifacts, system information, websites, wiki pages, and stitching them together. You will work directly with AWS search teams and partner teams that own wiki, sage answer engine, and broadcast videos. You will empower users with the tools and technology to share information, discover artifacts, ascertain ownership, find run-books, emulate best practices, and simplify creation and management of content. You will partner with engineers across Amazon Retail, Digital, and AWS to align on a strategy and goals for the organization and build mechanisms to enable knowledge discovery and data ingestion. You will build tools and processes that enable system owners to index new content, search for existing content, and easily organize and manage content. You will develop closed-loop mechanisms and reporting to audit your teams infrastructure efficiency, maintain software hygiene, and ensure future scalability of your services.You will explore using generative AI to enrich content that optimizes its discovery.

The ideal candidate is excited by the challenge to improve Amazon’s search and discovery and knowledge sharing. You are someone who loves to deep dive problems and makes intelligent decisions at scale. You thrive in an environment where the problem is not precisely written down, and are comfortable setting your own path. You will have significant influence on the overall strategy by helping define features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that improve accuracy and completeness.

Some info about this opportunity:
- Your work directly impacts the experience of all Amazon employees
- You will work with technical leaders, product managers, engineers, and data scientists - with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership
- We're looking for candidates that have acted as a technical leader and built high-performance, scalable, and robust systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment

As a SDE in Internal Search you will:
- Work with multiple developers, project managers, and data scientists focused on creating an inclusive culture across all of Amazon’s technology
- Own development of your products end-to-end
- Provide technical direction to engineers, even beyond your own team
- Contribute to short and long-term roadmaps for the business
- Drive continual improvements to the efficiency and flexibility of the compliance/auditing platforms while keeping an extremely high bar for employee trust, performance, and availability.






Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
- Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
- Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.