As the world's largest e-commerce company with a wide spectrum of products including Taobao, TMall, Alipay, AliCloud, and YunOS etc., Alibaba opened its Seattle office in September 2014, aiming at developing cutting-edge

technologies in big data, machine learning, and distributed systems. Alibaba is hiring Seattle-based software engineers to help build fast-growing mobile search engine to power up Alibaba's smart devices such as YunOS phones.

Responsibilities

- Develop distributed search pipeline end-to-end by applying Alibaba's engine technologies to build indexes and serve queries;

- Build real-time and personalized data collection and analysis pipeline to help improve product's relevance and revenue;

- Work with algorithm engineers to create ranking modules by using machine learning and distributed computing techniques;

- Design and implement interfaces and APIs to provide search services to partner teams.

Minimum qualifications

- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field;

- Strong coding skills with one or more programming languages including C and C++;

- Passions for developing large-scale distributed backend systems;

- Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms, OOP, performance tuning & optimization;

- Self-motivated, innovative and collaborative, with good communication skills;

- Fluent in Chinese speaking and writing.

Preferred qualifications

- MS or PhD degree in computer systems, distributed computing, or related technical field;

- Working knowledge of data mining and analysis, and machine learning;

- Experience with Linux system tools and shell programming;

- Experience with search engine indexing and ranking systems or similar.