Amazon is All-In on games. We believe the evolution that began with arcade communities a quarter at a time, growing to the live streams and eSports of today, will continue to a future where everyone is a gamer and every gamer can create, compete, collaborate and connect with others at massive scales. If you share our belief that games will produce some of the future’s most influential voices in media and art, come join us. At Amazon Game Studios, you’ll have the power of Amazon Web Services’ cloud, Twitch, Amazon Lumberyard, and our digital and physical media publishing infrastructure available as raw material to forge a future filled with amazing experiences for players, streamers and creators. We are looking for a seasoned Senior Software Development Engineer with a strong track record of owning and delivering on large scale services. As a senior engineer in an advanced technology group, you will be a creative problem solver who is obsessed with building revolutionary AWS services from
· Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience · 8+ years of professional software engineering experience · 8+ years of C/C++ or Java coding skills, preferably on Linux/Unix platforms (Go or Python coding experience also a plus)· Experience with data structures, algorithms, operating system internals and/or distributed systems · Game industry experience working on large-scale, commercial online game services. · Multi-threaded, lock-free, high-throughput systems code · Consensus and coordination algorithms and paradigms in distributed systems · Large-scale event-driven