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Contact: chetta-resumes@amazon.com
Years Experience: 5
Education Required: Four-Year Degree

Job Description:

What's in it for me?

Associates Team at Amazon.com: the team that pioneered online affiliate programs is looking for smart and talented engineers to work on the next generation of innovative and personalized merchandising solutions. If you are passionate about solving complex business problems and building creative software applications you couldn't find a better opportunity! As a member of the Associates team, you will contribute to architecture and design decisions and work on building highly scalable, distributed applications that serve targeted ads to millions of visitors around the globe every hour. The ideal candidate will be a creative thinker who is a self-starter and should be capable of taking ownership of a major functional area and delivering results in our fast-paced environment.

Our Ideal Candidate:

Candidates should have a strong Computer Science background and should be fluent in C++ and object oriented design. Experience working with relational databases and analyzing large data sets will be a big plus! Other desired skills include familiarity with optimization techniques and scripting languages like Perl. Minimum of 3-5 years work experience and a bachelor's degree in computer science is required. An advanced degree in computer science or statistics is preferred.

Amazon.com
work hard, have fun, make history

Did you know that Amazon.com has hundreds of software engineers working on some of the most interesting technical challenges on the planet? We employ some of the world's brightest and most innovative minds in software, working on event-driven fulfillment planning, optimal content selection, product recommendation algorithms, guaranteed interprocess messaging, and the list goes on and on. Whether you're scaling our world-class supply chain systems or you're architecting an ecommerce platform that big name retailers (Target and Toys 'R Us, for example) depend on to run their online businesses - you'll find challenging work that'll stretch you on multiple dimensions.

At Amazon, we ship software continuously, so you'll see the results of your efforts in days or weeks not years. Amazon has an entrepreneurial small-team environment, where individuals' innovative ideas are prized and routinely make history. Because you'll be on a small cross-functional team that is responsible for both business and technology decisions, you'll never want for understanding the relationship between what you're working on and the ultimate business value that is being created.

Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and is now the world's leading ecommerce technology company. Amazon.com seeks exceptionally well-qualified candidates and offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Contact: chetta-resumes@amazon.com