Amazon India Openings For Programmer Analyst @ Chennai

Programmer Analyst

Job ID: 190596Posted Date:22-11-2012Location:IN-TN-ChennaiCompany:Amazon Chennai (Dev Ctr - IN)

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Job Description

As a member of Amazon's Global Retail Systems Development team, you'll play a key role in driving Amazon's Retail business. You will solve technical challenges in Large Webscale Computing, Distributed Systems, Web Applications, Data Mining, Optimization, Scalability, Availability and Algorithms to name a few. Working with business teams to translate their needs into technical requirements you will build cutting-edge systems that meet challenging business and technical goals. Innovation Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Do you want to apply state-of-the-art computer science to solve real world problems? Do you have a curious mind that applies concepts like machine learning, pattern matching and mathematical modelling to solve complex online business scenarios? Do you want to pave the future of Amazon Retail, enhancing how we do business as a key player in global e-commerce? Opportunity To meet these challenges, Amazon Retail Systems is looking for passionate, talented and super-smart software engineers. We’re looking for people who innovate, love solving hard problems and never take no for an answer. Our engineers are some of the best software developers in the industry, who work hard, have fun and make history. The Retail Catalog team is responsible for the design and support of Amazon’s back end systems and services that feed the domestic and international retail catalogues. Our prime objective is to ensure that regular updates of product information are correctly processed in a timely manner and that the quality of data meets business requirements. Our secondary objective is to improve the robustness of our systems and to reduce data  latency by producing innovative ways of increasing data flow and improving failure recovery. We are keen to receive applications from recent, top quality graduates with good all round programming knowledge who are excited to work in a multi-language environment that includes Java, Perl, Scala, and C++.

Basic Qualifications

Strong understanding of distributed systems and multi-threaded programming Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, big “O” analysis and designing for performance, scalability, and availability Outstanding problem-solving abilities and a clear commitment to making Amazon a great place to work Ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

Excellent communication skills Ability to multitask and prioritize work load