Intern Software Development Engineering - Redshift - Berlin

Job description

DESCRIPTION

At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. We are looking for exceptionally talented, bright, and driven candidates to join our international team at our Amazon Development Center in central Berlin for a Software Development Engineer internship in 2019. Internships are flexible both in length (typically 4-6 months) and in start date; to fit in with your university's requirements.

Amazon is a place where builders can build. Our internships offer exceptional opportunities for you to grow your technical and non-technical skills. From day one, you will be working with experienced engineers and designers who love what they do.

As an intern you will join one of our agile teams. Your team will be involved in every aspect of the development process - from idea generation and technical design through to development and deployment - giving you a real sense of ownership. Together you will build enhance systems that meet high standards of performance and reliability and operate at massive scale. You will drive your own learning and development with guidance and coaching from your manager, mentor and teammates. You will personally experience the excellent long-term career development prospects at one of the world's leading online businesses.

Our Redshift Database team develops an exceptionally fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. It enables customers to dramatically increase their query performance when analyzing virtually any size data set using SQL. In this team you will have the chance to explore a particular database implementation or performance analysis project and work together with other developers and designers in the team to deliver new and enhanced functionality within the Redshift database or the Redshift Spectrum data lake analytics engine.

We offer highly competitive internship salaries. This is your opportunity to experience a unique environment and spend your industrial internship with a passionate and international team.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· You have at least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Applicants from a related discipline who can demonstrate a strong grounding in Computer Science will also be considered.
· You are studying and working toward an advanced degree - MSc or PhD level. If PhD level, you should be within 2 years of completion.
· Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, algorithm design, data structures, problem solving, and complexity analysis
· Demonstrated software design and implementation skills, including coding skills in Java, C, or C++.
· Scripting skills for rapid prototyping and benchmarking using languages such as Python, or JavaScript.
· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
· Fluent written and verbal English communications skills.