Senior Software Engineer

Description

The company's international business is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to work on search and browse features.

The role is based at 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

The team applies data science and advanced algorithms to improve how customers search and browse, and works closely with data scientists.

Responsibilities

• Build, train, and evaluate machine learning models for recommendations and search relevance.
• Create a system that collects, preprocesses, and analyzes real-time clickstream data.
• Work with data scientists to fine-tune models, suggest optimizations, and run A/B tests.
• Build scalable, low-latency microservices that host and serve machine learning models in real time.
• Improve data pipelines so ingestion, transformation, and normalization run efficiently for both batch and streaming workloads.

Requirements

• Either a master's degree or equivalent in software engineering, computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, or a closely related area, plus 1 year of experience in software engineering or a related area.
• Or a bachelor's degree or equivalent in the same fields, plus 3 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
• Experience designing and building REST API web services that host machine learning models.
• Experience designing, implementing, and validating large-scale A/B tests for new features.
• Experience designing and developing statistical models for query correction, exploration-exploitation, and regression analysis.
• Experience building big data pipelines that gather, aggregate, and interpret website data.
• Experience setting up and managing databases that store signal values produced by backend data pipelines.
• Experience designing and implementing automated systems to train, test, and deploy machine learning models.
• Experience building machine learning models that improve product ranking and recommendations.
• Experience maintaining, monitoring, and alerting on production pipelines.
• Experience using SQL, Hive, and Spark to write scripts that work with databases and big data storage.
• Graduate coursework, graduate research, or professional experience in the required skills is accepted in any amount.

Conditions

The salary range is $168,917/year to $234,000/year.

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Benefit eligibility may depend on job classification and length of employment, and benefits may change or follow specific plan terms.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and runs a zero-tolerance policy on illegal drugs and alcohol at work.

Benefits

• Performance-based incentive awards.
• Health coverage: medical, vision, and dental.
• Financial benefits: 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off: PTO including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Education assistance with 100% company-paid college degrees.
• Company discounts, military service pay, and adoption expense reimbursement.