[JOBS] Career Opportunities with Amazon.com (Seattle)

At 05:19 PM 7/20/2010, Lanese, Matt wrote:

Hi Victor,
I am in the Amazon.com recruiting department and we recently reviewed your resume.  Your background really caught our attention, and we are interested in talking to you about a full-time role. We are looking for passionate, talented and innovative technical talent who love solving hard problems and complex challenges in large-scale computing. We think you’d be a great fit for a SDE with our Fulfillment Center Systems group.
This position is located at our headquarters in Seattle, WA.  Because we look for the best employees available, Amazon.com does relocate approximately 80% of our corporate work force - we will move your personal belongings, hook you up with temporary housing, take care of storage and incidental expenses along the way - <http://www.amazon.com/techjobs>http://www.amazon.com/techjobs has a bit more detail.  
Please email me as soon as you get a chance so I can set up a time for you to speak with a hiring manager or team member.  Please include times (preferably between 10:00 am - 4:00 pm PST) and days that you are available for an hour long phone interview. If you are not interested, please send me an email to let me know.
I've included a copy of the job description below for your review: 
I look forward to hearing from you soon, 
 
Matt Lanese  |  Recruiting Coordinator  |  Amazon 
E: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]  P: 206.266.0369
 
Work hard. Have fun. Make history.
<http://www.amazon.com/careers>Amazon.com/Careers
 
Job Description:
FC Inbound Systems is looking for a talented, self-driven software development engineer to help drive a new initiative. If you are looking to work in a team where you can apply you sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, please come work with us. Our systems require strong software development skills more bent towards software architecture, complex algorithms, distributed messaging and memory management.
 
 
The platform you will be working will exist in a distributed, highly available environment and should be able to scale globally. If you would like to work on a system that listens to thousands of messages every minute from many different system, synchronizes them and builds a state machine based on these messages and then exposes this view to many clients in real time, this is a project for you.
 
 
You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals.
 
 
 
The ideal candidate has:
 
    * BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent with 2+ years of industry experience
    * Experience with Java and/or C++ and familiarity with Linux
    * Strong knowledge of algorithms and OO programming
    * Experience building scalable infrastructure software or distributed systems is a big plus
    * Sharp analytical abilities with excellent problem solving abilities
    * Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
    * Ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.



------------------------------------

Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cppug/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cppug/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
    [email protected] 
    [email protected]

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    [email protected]

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/