SDE-1 (Fixed Term Contract)

This is a 12 months contractual position.

At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – customer obsession is part of our company DNA. Our Software Development Engineers (SDEs) use cutting-edge technology to solve complex problems and get to see the impact of their work first-hand. The challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years. If this sounds interesting to you, apply and come chart your own path at Amazon.

Key job responsibilities

What to expect day-to-day:

• 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.

This is a contractual position which is ideal for candidates who are looking to deal with scaling challenges at Amazon and ready to build mission critical system software applications and tools. It is also an opportunity for freelance candidates to become domain experts and have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture and development of consumer products. Depending on individual performance this experience can lead to permanent positions as Software Development Engineers at Amazon.

Basic qualifications

• 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language