Amazon - System Development Engineer (SRE / DevOps) – Internship

Amazon's website Hosting group is looking for System Development Engineers to join our Iasi team. You will join an international team of System Development engineers and Technical Program Managers and work with peers in Seattle, Dublin and Iasi. As a System Development Engineer you will perform a blend of operations engineering as well as software development. This role is unique to Amazon and offers excellent career opportunities. You will take an active part in developing and operating Amazon current and next generation website hosting technologies used to manage the operations of our highly distributed website and service fleets. Our worldwide fleets serve 10s of billions of customer requests per day through Amazon retail websites, Kindle, Amazon instant video, Amazon subsidiaries and more, giving you a unique scale of impact opportunity for your career. You will need to demonstrate great passion for customers, agility and adaptability in the face of fast changing business requirements and innovation across the company.

As a successful candidate you will have a proven track record of diagnosing and fixing critical issues in high pressure situations. You will demonstrate creativity in identifying, scoping and building innovative tools to solve our unique operations problems. You will have a strong understanding of build and deployment pipelines as well as operations monitoring pipelines. You will have a strong understanding of website architecture scalability challenges.

Basic Qualifications

- Proficiency in at least one of following languages, Java, Python, Perl or Ruby

- Strong understanding of industry technology (analytics, monitoring, code deployment, system scalability, load balancers, web servers)

- Knowledge & experience of Linux and Apache

- Strong ability to communicate effectively in an international environment

- Understanding of TCP/IP networking and network architecture

Preferred Qualifications

- Expert level Linux admin skills

- Experience in developing software in Python

- Experience in developing systems architecture

- Track record in successfully addressing performance, scalability and latency challenges for a large website