Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon

Job description

Job 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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) 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 Centre plays a key role in building the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Amazon has a fast-paced environment where we “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History.” You'll be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale. You'll be surrounded by people who are wickedly smart and believe that world class service is critical to customer happiness.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer (Sr. SDE) in the CMDB Team you will contribute to a wide range of projects in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment. The projects range from adding new features to EC2, to improving the reliability and scalability of our systems, to re-architecting/decoupling our systems so that features can be delivered more rapidly. You will become part of an industry-leading engineering team solving challenging problems at massive scale.

Contact us if you are keen to become part of the global cloud computing revolution. If you're not from Cape Town, we offer comprehensive relocation as a part of our package. Amazon is one of the leading international software companies, and Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, making this an unparalleled opportunity.

We are busy expanding our team and have multiple positions available.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and deploy mission-critical systems that work at the scale of the EC2 fleet
• Design, implement and deploy new features for EC2 instances
• Design, implement and deploy new solutions that enable rapid feature delivery for complex APIs
• Improve and optimize the reliability and performance of existing systems
• Ensure the smooth and stable operation of the team’s services

   

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or honor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent qualification
• 5+ years of industry experience in a software development environment
• Excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills for technical and business audiences
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and driving of product strategy
• Experience in mentoring junior and senior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
• Experience in influencing software engineering best practices within your team
• Strong customer focus
• Some experience with Ruby, Python, Java or C/C++
• Some experience with Linux development

   

Preferred Qualifications

• A post-graduate qualification in Computer Science or related field
• Experience in taking a leading role in building and managing complex systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience with managing large volume and high throughput distributed systems in large scale distributed Linux environments
• Knowledge of system performance methodologies along with hands-on empirical monitoring