Saturday, September 29, 2007

Technical Recruting at Amazon

At Amazon, we strive to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. We’ve invested more than $2 billion in technology and content to date to solve some of the most complex technical challenges in distributed systems, operations, data mining, optimization, scalability, security and algorithms.

Software Development Engineer, High-Transaction Systems
Do you enjoy building and scaling huge, high-transaction, distributed systems with terabyte-sized databases on the back end? Are you excited by the thought of pushing technology to do things you never thought possible? Our Ordering, Performance Engineering, Software Platform Services, Web Services and other teams are looking for people like you.

Software Development Engineer, Algorithms
Do you love solving complex problems through math and statistics? Does work that leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning and information retrieval get your blood pumping? Teams across our company hire people like you, including Personalization, Fraud Prevention, Supply Chain Optimization and more.

Software Development Engineer, Test
Are you detail-oriented with a knack for breaking code and finding weaknesses in complex software? Would building automated, scalable tools that can find and fix those weaknesses across huge distributed systems get you up in the morning? Almost every development team around our company hires people like you.

Software Development Engineer, Developer Tools
Do you enjoy the study of software development? Do you want to apply your advanced software development skills to automate processes and create cool development tools? This is an important role at Amazon.com. Opportunities await people like you in our Developer Tools, Infrastructure Tools and QA Tools teams.

Software Development Engineer, User Interface
Do you enjoy developing user interfaces that give end users a world-class experience? Can you create interfaces that can scale and interact with large, distributed back-end systems? Does the idea of running usability tests seen by millions of customers excite you? Groups around the company hire people like you, including Web-Site Usability, Digital Media Technologies, Seller Applications, Community Technologies, Personalization, Web Services and more.

Software Development Engineer, Merchant Integration
Would you enjoy building and integrating technology solutions--front end and back end--that allow third-party retailers to leverage the Amazon.com platform? Would you be excited to work with almost every part of Amazon's technology to build turnkey e-commerce solutions for some of the biggest names in the physical retailing world? The Enterprise Commerce Services team hires people like you.

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