Software Development Engineer I – Computer Science

Software Development Engineer I – Computer Science

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in or completed a Bachelors Degree or higher in Computer Science.
• Applicants should have earned a Bachelors degree or higher between October 2023 and October 2025 and/or graduated within the last 24 months.
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design.
• Internship, project, or academic experience in at least one of the areas: internals, kernel, OS/storage systems, job scheduling, resource management, file systems, search, or performance engineering.

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.
• Design, implement and deliver state-of-the-art distributed, high-performance data and transaction management processing algorithms and solutions.
• Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud.

Preferred Qualifications

• Pursuing Masters or PhD Degree with focus on Systems / Information Theory, Databases, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related.
• Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Strong software development skills.