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.

Key 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, and 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 Qualifications
 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 Qualifications
 Knowledge with distributed, multi-tiered systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
 Knowledge in optimization mathematics such as linear programming and nonlinear
optimization.
 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.