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DESCRIPTION : At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we work hard, play hard, and make history. We believe that work should be a fun place where you can hone your natural talents. We believe in people taking ownership of their space and driving initiatives with all their creativity to deliver results for our customers. If this sounds like the place you would like to work, send us your resume / CV. You will be surrounded by people who are smart and passionate about cloud computing and supporting our customers.
We are looking for good people who love developing elegant solutions to solve hard problems to delight our customers. At Amazon, you'll learn new things and new perspectives.
When we say "working at scale," we really mean it. AWS customers are continuing to leverage AWS services for applications ranging from exploratory to targeted innovative solutions to business-critical systems. A key deciding factor for our customers in choosing AWS is the quality and reliability of the support they expect. Kumo is our software engineering organization that helps us scale our support capabilities. Kumo engineers build technology so our customers can make the best of their investment in AWS and have world-class support along the way. Kumo engineers work on a range of interesting challenges, like (a) providing timely and personalized information about the availability of AWS resources, (b) self-service ways to solve problems in using AWS resources, and (c) efficient case management for fast and complete resolution of cases. Kumo engineers leverage the latest AWS technologies, an extensive set of Amazon / AWS tools and frameworks, and rely on a diverse, experienced, and talented peer group to solve the challenges.
The Kumo Organization will provide you the opportunity to contribute to the complete vertical stack of a service-oriented architecture-based system, which is horizontally connected to most systems in the larger Amazon ecosystem. We code mostly in Java, JavaScript, and Python, and build on technologies powering the web such as Angular, Node, and ElasticSearch, as well as a broad range of in-house Amazon Cloud technologies and native AWS technologies, such as Lambda and DynamoDB.
Key job responsibilities:
In this role you will: Write high-quality, efficient, testable code in Java and other object-oriented languages.Build highly available, secure, distributed systems in microservices, container, and distributed cluster-compute architectures.Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry to work on some of the most complex challenges in large-scale computing.Own and operate the systems that you build based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements.Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as a member of a Scrum team.Play an instrumental role in defining the system architecture, own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall user experience.You must insist on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, security, and performance as you will ensure that engineering best practices are followed and that software is designed to be highly available, dynamically scalable, and resilient to continuity threats. You are a person with a commitment to teamwork and who enjoys working on cutting-edge technology, is customer-obsessed, and thrives on the challenge of building something new that will eventually operate at world-wide scale.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS : 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS : Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, or 5+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis) experience.Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas.
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