Software Dev Engineer I

About the Role

At Amazon, we are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals such as:
• Object-oriented design
• Algorithm design
• Data structures
• Problem solving
• Complexity analysis
• Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java, or Perl.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous technical internship(s).
• Experience with:
• Distributed, multi-tiered systems
• Algorithms
• Relational databases
• Experience in optimization mathematics such as linear programming and nonlinear optimization.
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
• Adept at handling ambiguous or undefined problems as well as ability to think abstractly.