Software Development Engineer 1 (Fixed Term Contract)

About the Role

This is a 12 months contractual position as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

Requirements

• 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on mission critical system software applications and tools
• Opportunity to become domain experts and have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture and development of consumer products
• Possibility of conversion to permanent Software Development Engineer position based on individual performance