Software Development Engineer

Amazon.com hires people from all types of backgrounds, into positions based all over the world. We recruit the best and brightest. Why Join Amazon.com? At Amazon, we believe that every day is still Day One. A day to take a first step. A day to look forward to new challenges. And today is that day for you. It's your day to be a part of something great. Your day to make your ideas come to life. And your day to join a company that redefines itself every day. That's the energy and excitement behind Amazon. Software Development Engineer Enterprise Application Development is a $2B business within Amazon that is growing more than 30% per year.  We are looking for people who can work quickly and efficiently across a broad array of features and functions.  The MDOTCOM software stack touches all of the Amazon retail feature set.  We work directly with a demanding set of customers who want to help push Amazon's retail software to maximize sales and customer satisfaction. If you have a passion for extending the platform and enjoy working with external customers this is the job for you.  Primary Responsibilities:  Define, design, and implement multi-tier distributed software applications. Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, and adherence to development goals and principles.  Must be able to independently design code and test major features, as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes. Must be able to effectively collaborate in a fast paced environment with multiple teams in a large organization (software development, QA, Project/Release Management, Build and Release, etc). Qualifications:  3+ years of recent experience as a Software Developer including solid experience with multi-tiered solutions, database interactions, UNIX/Linux and support of production systems  Excellent written and verbal communications skills A college degree with a CS Major, or a technical major with a CS Minor At least one solid year of on-the-job Java development experience At least one solid year of creating and executing complex SQL queries At least 2 years of on-the-job experience in at least 3 of the following: C++, Perl, Java, Shell scripts, MySQL, Oracle  Solid coding practices experience including good design documentation, source control, unit testing, peer code-reviews, object-oriented design/coding skills, etc.  Experience designing high-performance, scalable architectures