Amazon System Development Engineer II Intelligent Cloud Hosting ICON 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

429490095

In short, we perform cloud infrastructure management at the biggest scale in the known universe. We also look good doing it.We’re looking for a Systems Development Engineer who is inventive, who understands operational excellence, and can work to scale.
Key job responsibilities
• We do almost everything in Linux. We’re looking for people who are not just hobbyists, but people who’ve tweaked their favorite distro to get things working just the way they like them.
• We need people with a solid grasp of networking fundamentals. This includes experience with load balancers, switches, and routers.
• We need people who can design, implement, maintain and deploy components that solve problems in a complex ecosystem. We work in lots of different languages (not limited to, but most often Python and Java). It is more important to us that you understand coding in the context of working in distributed systems and/or widely scaled web applications.
• We need people with strong written and verbal communication skills and an ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals.
• We want to work with people whose passion for problem solving goes hand-in-glove with their debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• We need people with an ability to self-motivate and follow-through on projects. To us, that means being detail oriented, passionate, and delivering results.
Seattle, WA, USA

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 2+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby