This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon's world class technical team in either Seattle, WA or Herndon, VA, working with some of the best and brightest engineers and technical managers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere. Amazon Web Service is building some of the largest distributed systems in the world. Amazon's database offerings like Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, EMR, RDS, and Redshift are massively scaled services that make up a critical piece of the internet today. A successful Engineer joining the team will do much more than write code and triage problems. They will work with Amazon's largest and most demanding customers to address specific needs across a full suite of services. They will dive deep into technical issues and work relentlessly to improve the customer experience. The ideal candidate will: Be great fun to work with. Our company credo is "Work hard. Have fun
· Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or relevant work experience · 2+ years Linux Operating System experience · 2+ years plus of distributed system management experience · 1+ year(s) developing system management / automation software in Perl, Python, Ruby, or Java This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and must be willing to obtain or currently possess an active Top Secret security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and satisfy