Overview

Amazon Game Studios is passionate about building highly creative, exciting, and innovative entertainment for avid video game players. Combining a startup atmosphere with the ambition to build cutting-edge technology, the game teams at Amazon are looking for a passionate engineer who wants to move fast, have fun, and make a big impact on the game industry.

As a Sr. Software Development Engineer on our core technology team, you will be a cross-functional engineer who should enjoy working on many types of systems from general engine technology all the way to tools.

Responsibilities include:

  • Proven expertise in a specialized area of game engineering as in core systems, physics, UI/UX, streaming, or gameplay.
  • Team player who is always looking to help solve problems wherever needed.
  • Solve difficult problems that are sometimes not well defined by writing elegant and practical code.
  • Identify pipeline bottlenecks and opportunities for automation.
  • Be a champion for the user: Insist on the highest standards, and create and improve well-designed tools that delight our game devs.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent) experience.
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, working on multi-discipline teams.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithms, and data structures.
  • Advanced software engineering skills, including the ability to write maintainable and robust code in C++. Knowing C#, Java, and/or ObjC.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Desire to demonstrate and teach internal tech and tools to Amazon game teams.
  • Unity, Unreal, CryEngine or other 3D game engine development experience.
  • Strong understanding of mathematical concepts, graphics, collision detection, data transformation, database management.
  • Great communication skills and ability to work effectively on shared projects with designers, artists, testers, and other developers.

We offer excellent pay and generous stock plans, great benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401k with matching, and more. Relocation is available for qualified candidates.Amazon is an equal opportunity employer.

Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History.

About Amazon

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.

Founded by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com website started in 1995 as a place to buy books because of the unique customer experience the Web could offer book lovers. Bezos believed that only the Internet could offer customers the convenience of browsing a selection of millions of book titles in a single sitting. During the first 30 days of business, Amazon fulfilled orders for customers in 50 states and 45 countries - all shipped from his Seattle-area garage.

Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world.

We're a company of pioneers. It's our job to make bold bets, and we get our energy from inventing on behalf of customers. Success is measured against the possible, not the probable. For today’s pioneers, that’s exactly why there’s no place on Earth they’d rather build than Amazon.

We are a company of builders who bring varying backgrounds, ideas, and points of view to inventing on behalf of our customers. Our diverse perspectives come from many sources including gender, race, age, national origin, sexual orientation, culture, education, as well as professional and life experience. We are working to develop leaders and shape future talent pools to help us meet the needs of our customers around the world.