The Challenge: Amazon in partnership with Whole Foods is looking for passionate and innovative System Development Engineers that have a heart for Nourishing People and the Planet. This team which works for Amazon and provides services to Whole Foods Market, will be closely aligned with our Chief Technology Officer (CTO) tackling some of our most complex projects that will deliver innovative technical advancements for the retail grocery industry.
The Team: We can't wait to show customers what's possible when Amazon and Whole Foods Market innovate together. This is just the beginning and we need exceptional people across all technology disciplines to build and unearth the full potential of this opportunity.
The Role: Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment. As a System Development Engineer, you will help tackle a diverse landscape of technical challenges that keep the business running.
You will develop, deploy, and maintain, reliable distributed solutions that operate at Amazon scale. You will work with a variety of core languages and technologies including Java, ASP.NET, C/C#, Windows, Linux, and AWS services. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and will have the opportunity to redefine an industry while working with different teams across Amazon and Whole Foods Market. Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on many people. Most importantly you’ll be contributing to our Higher Purpose of Nourishing People and the Planet!
- 5+ years of experience working within engineering teams building successful production software systems
- 3+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Strong experience with agile software development lifecycle, including continuous deployment automation, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, testing, and operations following CI/CD best practices
- Advanced proficiency in one or more high-level programming language: Java, ASP.NET, C/C++, C#, Python, or Perl
- Experience with system analysis and troubleshooting in large-scale Windows or Linux environment
- Strong networking fundamentals including DNS, DHCP, SSH, HTTP, TCP/IP protocols, and hands-on experience with network infrastructure components such as load balancers, switches, and routers
- Proven track record of driving cross-team initiatives with strong problem-solving abilities and dedication to delivering high-quality, customer-focused solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem-solving skills and excellent communication with peers and non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment- Proven object-oriented design and implementation skills, preferably on Windows or Unix/Linux platform
- Deep Experience with Windows and Microsoft technologies.
- Strong understanding of modern database technology, experience with AWS database products such as RDS
- Advanced understanding of DNS, DHCP, SSH, HTTP, TCP/IP and other common network protocols
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Solid knowledge of CS fundamentals - object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, problem solving and complexity analysis.
- 7+ years relevant work experience
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