Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Come be part of a team that will directly shape and influence the future growth of Amazon. Recruiting Technologies (RT) organization is responsible for developing, building, and innovating global and scalable technology solutions that are intelligent, powerful, automated, and light-weight to deliver industry leading experiences to both recruiters and candidates. These technologies are critical components to help Amazon grow continuously and launch new products and services.
As a member of a team in RT that is responsible for search and discovery of information, you will contribute to the development of back-end systems in charge of real-time data streaming, distributed data processing, and aggregation from a variety of data sources for applications such as middle-tier and front-end recruiting systems, search, data analytics and reporting systems, and machine learning applications.
You will contribute to all aspects of the software development lifecycle including design, development, documentation, testing and operations. You have strong verbal and written communication skills, are self-driven and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment.
As a software development engineer in the team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of product features from beginning to end. You will:
· Work with the team to help drive business decisions
· Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
· Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
· Write high quality distributed system software
· Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Amazon. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· A good engineer will demonstrate that they can proactively and continually improve their level of knowledge about Amazon’s business and relevant technologies, and use this knowledge to deliver high quality, accurate software deliverables.
· Clear, professional communication skills able to contribute to team discussions, knowing when to contribute, when to listen, and when to ask questions.
· Experience developing in a Linux environment

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
· Equivalent experience to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 years’ experience for every 1 year of education
· Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
· Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
· Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
· Knowledge of, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, C#, Java, or Perl