Software Development Engineer, Photos

Software Development Engineer, Amazon Photos

Amazon Photos empowers customers to preserve, share, and relieve their memories across mobile applications, web, desktop, Amazon devices, and as part of Alexa+. We strive to provide customers with the best memories companion for them and their families.

• Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant services that power computer vision and AI features across the Amazon Photos ecosystem
• Build and optimize full-stack solutions that handle massive amounts of photo and video data while maintaining high performance and reliability
• Architect and develop ML model serving infrastructure and pipelines for real‑time computer vision applications
• Drive technical decisions and architecture discussions for critical infrastructure components
• Collaborate with ML scientists to product ionize computer vision models and optimize their performance at scale
• Implement and maintain observability solutions for complex distributed systems
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to building a culture of engineering excellence
• Partner with product managers and other teams to define technical roadmaps and deliver customer-facing features

We operate at massive scale, processing billions of customer photos while maintaining high availability and low latency. Our team leverages technologies in distributed systems, computer vision, and machine learning to create innovative solutions that delight customers. We’re building the future of how people interact with their memories, using AI to create more personalized and meaningful experiences.

• 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

• 3+ 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
• Experience with one of the following areas: machine learning technologies, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP) or related applications
• 4+ years of distributed systems experience
• Knowledge of one or more ML Frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Tensor Flow) and ML methods including NLP models (BERT, GPT‑2/3), computer vision‑based models (object detection, image recognition), and text-based models (Seq2
  
  Seq, Topic modeling)
• Experience in cloud computing technologies

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