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Software Development Engineer - EC2

Job Ref
238912
Job Type
Permanent
Employer Type
Company
Date Added 31 Jul 2014
Expiry Date 28 Aug 2014
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Employer:
Amazon Development Centre Cape Town

Location:
Western Cape

Salary:
Negotiable

Benefits:


Role details:
Amazon Development Centre South Africa is looking for passionate, experienced software developers to join us and help to solve a challenging set of problems in a space packed full of opportunities.

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

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the web service that 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. We are continuing to build the team in order to expand on our feature set and manage our rapidly increasing scale.

The ideal candidate will be clearly passionate about the large opportunity that Amazon EC2 presents and about web services in general. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality solutions in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.
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Responsibilities

Develop software services that are designed to adapt to the evolving businesses of Amazon while improving customer experience, as well as the quality and productivity of our operations teams.
Build relationships with existing and potential internal customers to understand their individual requirements and demonstrate how products can add value to their business.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer.

Basic Qualifications

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
Excellent written communication and verbal agility are strong assets.
Strong customer focus.
2+ years of industry experience.
2+ years in object-oriented design.
Linux operating system development. (at the kernel and device driver level)
Experience working pragmatically under deadlines with operational software is highly desired.
Experience in a variety of mainstream and open source technologies like Ruby, Java, C++, Linux, Perl, Python, Scala, JavaScript, and Oracle.
Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative applications.
Experience building scalable applications with focus on application design & optimization, memory / Cpu / network usage.
Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities.
Knowledge of system performance methodologies along with hands on empirical monitoring.
Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.

Preferred Qualifications
An advanced degree in Computer Science or equivalent. 5+ years of industry experience in a software development environment



 
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