Software Development Engineer - World-Wide Online Traffic

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) at Amazon.com is all about optimizing and enhancing Amazon.com sites for more free traffic from search engines. The SEO team is working on finding algorithmic ways to maximize the traffic and sales we get through natural search results, which is a fascinating challenge given the scale of Amazon.






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The SEO team is looking for exceptional software engineers with broad technical abilities and interests. If you have a degree in Computer Science, over 3 years of broad real-world software development experience, and love a fast paced environment, we want to talk to you. Do you like to make sense out of massive data sets then use this knowledge to test features in real time?? Are you driven by innovation?? Innovating for our customers is extremely important: the kind of innovation that lets you find practical, scalable solutions to big hairy problems.?



The ideal candidate will have 3 years experience as a software design engineer, an excellent problem-solving brain, good understanding of a broad range of algorithms and data structures, and a strong quantitative mind-set (preferably with some computational complexity and statistical knowledge). The candidate will be highly pragmatic - both a thinker and a do-er; we want to use technology to solve real-world problems expediently. No experience with any particular language or other technology is necessary, but we would expect any strong candidate to be proficient in at least one of C, C++, Java, or Perl. A strong UNIX background (preferably Linux) with good understanding of OS fundamentals, database skills and experience with large-scale multi-tiered distributed systems are also highly desired. Experience with current SEO methodologies highly desired.



Amazon.com is recruiting for Seattle-based opportunities. Relocation to Seattle, WA is required.