Multiple Openings at Amazon

Job title :Software Development Engineer  Job ID: 129166 Location: IN-Bangalore   Key Skills:  • Outstanding expertise in Java or C++ and object oriented design.  • Solid understanding of relational databases and SQL.  • Strong background in computer science and at least a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.  • Focus on clean high-quality code and solid designs.  • Ability to work effectively under pressure in a dynamic environment.  • At least 3 years experience of successful production software deployments.  • Experience with large-scale multi-tiered systems and service-oriented architecture highly desirable. Basic Qualifications: • Outstanding expertise in Java or C++ and object oriented design. • Strong background in computer science and at least a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.  • 3+ years of software development experience. Preferred Qualifications •Experience with large-scale multi-tiered systems and service-oriented architecture highly desirable. About Amazon:

A9.com, Inc. researches and builds innovative technologies to improve search experience for e-commerce applications. A separately branded and operated subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., A9.com opened its Palo Alto, California, doors in October 2003 and Bangalore office in August 2004. A9.com's technology powers search on Amazon.com and other web sites. 

The A9 India team is primarily geared towards the advertisement market. As part of A9, we run the Sponsored Links program for Amazon.com. One can register to the sponsored links program by visiting www.clickriver.com. A lot of interesting and cool technologies have been built around this that includes 
A semi-automated way (automated + manual) of understanding the category of a website 
Statistical and semantic text mining algorithms to extract the concepts of a web page for several languages (English, Japanese, German) 
Building the Dataware house for the advertiser network 
Algorithms around click patterns and detection of invalid clicks for the sponsored link market 
Prediction model of the advertisement traffic based on historic data 

The team in India is a good mix of product managers, analytics/statisticians, text miners, database/warehouse gurus, systems folks who work together to solve interesting problems in the sponsored link market. Clickriver saw its Open Beta launch on Nov. 1st, 2006. 

The team also delivered the first version of Product News feature for Amazon.com in April 2005. This feature gets relevant news and reviews article for a given product from reputed sites