Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Its truly Day 1 for our team in AWS. This is your opportunity to be a founding member of a new team thats building a suite of AWS Apps and Services to tackle a huge new problem space. Youll be an integral part of building services that leverage cutting edge AWS technologies like SageMaker, Forecast, Athena, QuickSight, Glue, and more. As an early member of the team, youll wear many hats. Youll help design the overall architecture, contribute to the product vision, and establish the technology processes and practices that will lay the groundwork for the organization as it grows.

An ideal candidate is an experienced Support Engineer with a development and/or operations background who can lead activities on a growing team. The candidate should be able to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical problems, partner with development teams on complex issues, participate in recruiting, write tools/script to help the team, and work with leadership on process improvement or strategic initiatives.
This team is a great fit for you if
You enjoy working with a fun team that prides itself on a great work environment with an inclusive group of people that are working together towards a common goal.
You are sensitive to customer needs and interested in working on a service that will be used, directly and indirectly, by millions of customers and has a meaningful impact to their functions and interactions.
Youd like to be directly responsible for solving real customer problems.
You are a passionate learner and are motivated to take on new challenges.
You want to have fun; surround yourself with a highly talented pool of engineers that like to solve complex problems, but also enjoy work life balance.

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee -led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

3+ years of non-internship professional software development and/or software support experience
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C
Previous experience supporting/developing distributed systems or cloud native applications

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of non-internship professional software development and/or software support experience
Proficiency with ETL tools such as AWS Glue
Experience with Monitoring / Troubleshooting tools
Experience in managing full application stack from the OS up through custom applications
Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating
Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills
Experience developing cloud native applications is a plus
Additional Locations include: Seattle, WA; Arlington,VA and Austin, TX
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