Software Development Engineer - AWS SimpleDB

Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. As part of Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are pioneering the Database as a Service (DaaS) market segment.

The Amazon SimpleDB team is looking for super-smart software and systems professionals to join us and help grow our fledgling web service. As a software engineer, you will find that we have some unusual and challenging requirements that need creative solutions and the development of non trivial systems management tools. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric and feels strongly not only about building good software but about making that software achieve its goals in operational reality.

The ideal candidate will be clearly passionate about the large opportunity that Amazon SimpleDB presents and about web services in general. You'll be part of a strong team in a fast-paced, start-up like environment. This is an opportunity to work with distributed systems on a massive scale across multiple data centers, multiple countries and thousands of customers.

You should have:

• Experience running and maintaining a 24x7 internet-oriented production environment
• Created, designed and implemented system health, performance monitoring tools and software management tools
• A solid grasp of networking fundamentals, including load balancers, switches and routers
• An understanding of fleet inventory management including capacity planning
• Participated in all phases of the software development life cycle from specification through launch, providing hardware and systems expertise and representing operability requirements around all aspects of a product or product line
• Experience with rotational on-call duties and real-time live-system responsibility

Base Requirements

• BS Computer Science or equivalent applicable experience
• 3+ years experience in 24x7 online internet and high scale computing environments
• Knowledge of Java
• Experience with web-based applications at massive scale is a plus
• Experience with Perl, Python and/or Ruby is a plus

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