Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon

Job Description

Amazon Development Centre South Africa is looking for passionate software developers to join us and help to solve a challenging set of problems in the

This team is responsible for mapping individual instance-launch requests to physical hosts. As such, we’re critical to EC2’s proper functioning. We’re also key to EC2’s ability to deliver novel customer-features and improve efficiencies. The team’s problem-space is particularly interesting, as it requires us to build systems which solve multi-axis optimization problems in real-time, involving elements of control theory. The Instance Placement team earned top results in the most recent member-survey for the questions: " I'd recommend my team as a great place to work " , " I work with exceptional people " , and " My team is truly innovating. "

Basic Qualifications

• At least a four year degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent
• Working knowledge of relational databases and back-end programming
• Strong customer focus
• 8+ years of industry experience in a software development environment
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
• Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as C++, C#, Java, Python or Ruby
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals
• Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative applications
• Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities.
• Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Excellent written communication and verbal agility.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience in a Linux environment.