System Development Engineer

Job Description

• Amazon strives to delight customers and make their lives easier. We have an extensive range of opportunities to learn and experiment to grow under the guidance of a pioneer engineering community.
• Amazon is looking for passionate Systems Development Engineers, who can build innovative and mission critical software applications and tools. You will have enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and development of consumer products.
• You will be responsible for delivery and support of large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications and tools in a fast paced agile environment.

Responsibilities

• You create end-to-end design of software components, understand how to scope and define requirements, identify potential shortcomings and trade-offs with different design approaches.
• You write, develop, review scripts, applications, systems, processes and mechanisms that scale with growing demands.
• You write code with high quality to solve problems using efficient data structures and algorithms that include high test coverage.
• You identify opportunities for automation of repetitive tasks such as infrastructure management, system configurations, monitoring, load and chaos testings, etc. and build working solutions that are easy to manage.
• You act as an engineering excellence champion by identifying and implementing industry’s best practices to improve service availability, reliability and efficiency.
• Handle customer impacting events, take part in Incident postmortems, Root Cause Analysis (Troubleshooting) to identify underlying issues and fix them.
• Perform upgrades, decommissions and maintenance for production systems and infrastructure (UNIX/Linux systems, AWS Services, Networking failures, etc.).

Basic Qualification

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or related field at time of application
• Syntactical knowledge in Programming or Scripting languages such as Java, C/C++, Python, etc
• Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, Operating systems, Algorithm, design, data structures, and complexity analysis
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Good communication, both verbal and written

Preferred Qualification

• Previous technical internship(s) or job experience in relevant field, if applicable.
• Knowledge/Experience with distributed, multi-tiered systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
• Knowledge/Experience in optimization mathematics such as linear and nonlinear programming.
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
• Adept at handling ambiguous or undefined problems as well as ability to think abstractly.
• Learn fast and adapt quickly to a fast-paced/agile development environment.