Software Development Engineer - Selection Monitoring

Job Description

Impact

Are you passionate about offering customers Earth's biggest selection? Do you want to play a key role in building innovative solutions to drive authoritative selection on Amazon? Do you have a high sense of ownership and the ability to create end to end solutions for complex problems? If so, Amazon's Selection Monitoring team has an opportunity for you.

Opportunity

The Selection Monitoring team is responsible for identifying worldwide selection opportunities and providing actionable data to the business teams to drive selection expansion. We are looking for SDEs to focus on challenging technical problems such as extracting structured-data from unstructured-content, building state-of-the-art crawling infrastructure, automatic classification, workflow prioritization and architecting large-scale distributed systems. This is a tremendous opportunity for SDEs who want to create reliable and scalable solutions to enhance selection for our customers. We're looking for people who innovate, love solving hard problems, and never take "no" for an answer. You will be part of a team of top-notch software developers to work hard, have fun, and make history.

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Basic Qualifications

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

* Equivalent experience to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 years of work 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

* Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, C#, Java, or Perl

Preferred Qualifications

* 2+ years professional experience in software development

+ Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

o Experience with distributed computing, cloud based technologies and enterprise-wide systems

# Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

@ Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between

- Knowledge of Linux/Unix and scripting on perl/ruby.

= Experience working with Japanese, Chinese, or other non-Latin alphabets a plus.

 

Posted Date: 8/31/2012 Company: Amazon Corporate LLC
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Country: USA, State: Washington, City: Seattle, Company: Amazon.