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Amazon Software Development Engineer


Want to build a new business in the Cloud? Amazon Web Services is looking for passionate, experienced software developers to join us in building a new business platform. This is an opportunity to be part of a start-up team for a new business that promises to be a unique game changer in the web services arena.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the web service that is pioneering cloud computing by providing resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It gives any developer complete control of their computing resources and lets them run on Amazon's proven computing environment. We are continuing to build the team in order to take advantage of new growth opportunities.

The ideal candidate will be clearly passionate about the large opportunity that Amazon EC2 presents and about web services in general. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality solutions in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast. If you're looking to solve challenging technical problems and create great products for customers, then we would like to talk to you.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 4+ years relevant work experience.
• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design and problem solving.
• The technical skills required for this role include 3 - 5 years of object-oriented design and programming in Java,C# or C++.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree; MS or Ph.D. a plus
• Experience building and operating online services and fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a team
• Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency and drive

How to Apply