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Amazon Development Centre South Africa is looking for passionate software developers to join us and help to solve a challenging set of problems in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) space.

 

This position is in the team that is responsible for mapping individual instance-launch requests to physical hosts. As such, we’re core to EC2’s proper functioning, and key to EC2’s ability to deliver novel customer-features. The team’s problem-space is particularly interesting, as it requires us to build systems which solve multi-axis optimization problems in real-time, involving elements of control theory. The team earned top results in a recent member-survey for the questions: "I′d recommend my team as a great place to work" and "I find the work that I do on my team is interesting."

 

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer.

 

Desired Skills and Experience

Basic Qualifications:

 

Strong customer focus

Experience with Java, Ruby, Perl or C/C++

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Strong Computer Science fundamentals

Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities

Preferred Qualifications:

 

1-3 years of industry experience, including internships

Experience with Linux development

Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative applications

Knowledge of system performance methodologies along with hands on empirical monitoring

Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

Excellent written communication and verbal agility