Software Engineer, Lucene Search Engine

Join Amazon's Lucene Search Engine team, where you'll work on mission-critical search infrastructure powering Amazon's product discovery. The team designs and develops query serving and indexing components of Amazon's product search stack, built on open-source Lucene. You'll be responsible for matching customer keywords to products, applying business rules, and ranking products using sophisticated algorithms under strict latency requirements.

The role offers unique opportunities to work with both lexical and semantic matching using state-of-the-art approximate near neighbor (ANN) search on learned vector representations. You'll dive deep into search engine internals, improving both performance and matching capabilities, while collaborating with teams building conversational search experiences.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own medium-complexity projects end-to-end, contribute to open-source Lucene, and bring the latest advancements in-house. The position requires strong technical expertise in search technologies and distributed systems, with opportunities to work on cutting-edge semantic search capabilities.

Amazon offers competitive compensation including base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits. You'll be part of a team that values operational excellence and innovation, working in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area. This role provides an excellent opportunity to impact how millions of customers discover products on one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms.