Software Development Engineer – EC2 API Platform team

Job description

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 a space packed full of opportunities.

The Cape Town based Amazon Web Services (AWS) Development Center plays a key role in building the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). EC2 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.

Do you want to design, develop and operate systems at a scale only available at a select few companies in the world? Do you want to learn from- and share your knowledge with- some of the best software engineers in the industry?

AWS (Amazon Web Services) provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.

The advertised position is within the team responsible for building and operating the routing and orchestration logic of the customer-facing EC2 APIs. Our team plays a key role in the delivery of almost all EC2 features, offering our engineers great exposure to many projects and teams within AWS.

The ideal candidate will be clearly passionate about the large opportunity that Amazon EC2 presents and about web services in general. Amazon.com offers a demanding, exciting and rewarding experience, with opportunities to work with the world's best engineers on some of the most interesting problems.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Expertise in any of Ruby, Perl, Java, Scala, C/C++ or C#
· Strong customer focus
· Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities
· Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
· Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
· Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis