Amazon is hiring - if you are in the Seattle area, or would like to be, and are interested in working with some of the brightest engineers around, take a look at the job postings. Here's an example:

We are looking for talented and hardworking software engineers, with 3+ years of experience in building distributed systems and transaction-processing applications, to join us. Successful candidates will have a strong background in object-oriented design & programming (C++/Java), UNIX, middleware technologies (publish/subscribe, CORBA), databases (Oracle), algorithms, data-structures, and web technologies (XML, Mason). A bachelor's degree or higher in computer science is required.