As a member of the Amazon development team, you’ll be given the opportunity to have direct impact on the evolution of the Amazon e-commerce platform and lead mission critical projects early in your career. Your design, code and raw smarts will contribute to solving some of the most complex technical challenges in the areas of distributed systems, data mining, optimization, scalability, security and tweaking algorithms, just to name a few.

Innovation: Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Are you interested in finding the best intersection of features vs. performance? Are you up to the task of delivering innovative technology that offers millions of unique products to thousands of suppliers, to tens of millions of customers around the world? Many of the technical challenges Amazon encounters have never been dealt with before on this scale, if at all. Come help lead the way in e-commerce innovation.

Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or related technical discipline
• Must be currently enrolled in school or graduated within the last 12 months
• At least 2 years experience with object-oriented design and coding, to include academic experience and/or internships

Preferred Qualifications:
• Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills (C/C++ and/or Java preferably on a UNIX or Linux platform)
• Knowledge of Perl or other scripting languages a plus
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• Experience in optimization mathematics (linear programming, nonlinear optimization)
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly
• Previous technical internship(s) preferred
• Graduate degree a plus

In order to be considered, please apply through our website:
https://up-amazon.icims.com/jobs/122383/job?in_iframe=1

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Amazon will also be hosting a Technical Talk/Information Session on February 23rd at 7pm on the UMBC campus.  More details can be found in UMBCworks.

In case you were wondering ‘What is open in The Commons during Winter Break, and when?’, you now have this to refer to!

Much to our delight, the video is a classic. It put a smile on our faces and we hope it does the same to you.

Merry Christmas!

Romans 8:26, 27 NIV

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

Reflection:

It is a good feeling to know that someone has your back.  The Spirit, who knows the mind of God, is our helper when we are weak.  We’re not only “not alone” because of the community, but we also have the Spirit who helps us to pray.  The same Spirit that intercedes for us when we don’t know what to pray for also leads us in a lifelong, close knit walk in following Him and learning the heart, groans, and mind of God.  What an exciting journey that we are on!  Let’s walk with the Spirit today.

Response:

Let’s pray that the Spirit will guide us to living a life that is pleasing to the Lord.  It is about daily walking closely with the Spirit who is our helper.  Let’s pray for more of the Spirit’s help and work in our lives so that we can go and love this generation for Christ.

“This is the moment [Obama] and his presidency promised to deliver,” writes UMBC political science professor Thomas Schaller in Salon, of the fight over the payroll tax cut extension. “This is,” he suggests, “a moment  for the president to demonstrate the resolve that earned his hopeful believers’ support three years ago, and it comes as he begins asking the electorate for another four-year lease on the Oval Office.”

Beyond supporting the payroll tax cut extension, Schaller argues, “the president should go a step further and call out the GOP’s Tea Party wing,” which blocked the passage of a two-month extension earlier this week. “He can’t let their stalling tactics break him,” Schaller writes, “Because this is not just the fight of his presidency — it could very well be the fight for his presidency.” Read the full column at Salon.com.