Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon
$151.3-261.5k
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$151.3-261.5k
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 4+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 4+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Desirable
- 4+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- M.Sc. or PhD Degree in computer science, engineering, statistics, mathematics or related field
- Proficiency in the TensorFlow and/or PyTorch frameworks
- Strong working knowledge of C++ programming language
- Strong working knowledge of Python programming language
- Experience in developing highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
- Experience with multi-threaded asynchronous development in C++
- Solid understanding of machine learning techniques and concepts
- Experience with High Performance Computing systems
- Experience with CUDA programming
- Experience with Deep Learning models for Natural Language Understanding or Computer Vision tasks
- Experience with Linux kernel system calls or POSIX API (process control, communication, and device management)
What the job involves
- AWS AI is looking for world-class software developers to join the Deep Learning cross-framework team
- In this organization, you will be responsible for contributing extensions to the TensorFlow and PyTorch machine learning frameworks and for developing cross-framework solutions to support training of Deep Learning models at scale, involving thousands of accelerators
- You will be working in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of engineers and researchers who are leaders in the field
- You will take on challenging problems, elicit requirements, and deliver innovative solutions into production that consolidate the AI team as thought leaders in the space
- AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry
- As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services
- As a Software Development Engineer in the SageMaker Engines team, you will be responsible for:
- Developing innovative solutions for supporting Large Language Model training in a cluster of nodes
- Implementing model parallelism methods such as pipeline and tensor parallelism as extensions to the PyTorch framework
- Implementing sharding of the model training state, activation checkpointing/offloading and other memory saving techniques
- Optimizing distributed training by profiling, identifying bottlenecks and addressing them by improving compute and network performance, as well as finding opportunities for better compute/communication overlap
- Optimizing communication collectives for the AWS network infrastructure
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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