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Amazon Game Studios is currently looking for a talented Software Development Engineer for its Irvine studio. The successful candidate will perform design, administration and development for multiple production systems running on AWS.

Who You Are

  • You will be responsible for fast-paced complex distributed systems supporting various game teams.
  • You have the ability to rapidly troubleshoot complex technical problems under pressure.

What You'll Do

  • Design and develop systems and services in conjunction with the game and application development teams
  • Test, validate and implement performance and resource optimizations
  • Maintain development, staging and production environments
  • Monitor and maintain system security and configuration
  • System & Application (game servers, app servers) performance tuning
  • Root cause analysis of production-related issues
  • On-call for production systems - daily maintenance, monitoring, problem resolution and support of internal and external customers
  • Experience managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, or related field or equivalent work experience
  • 3 years of professional experience with at least one modern object-oriented programming language such as C++ or C# on UNIX/Linux or Windows platforms

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience developing on Amazon Web Services
  • Working knowledge of C++ and Python.
  • Experience with service-oriented architecture (SOA) and web application/services development
  • Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization
  • Experience with Computer Science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms and complexity analysis
  • Experience developing rich applications with HTML, CSS, JS, C#
  • 2 years IT troubleshooting/problem-solving experience
  • Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
  • Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.

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