DESCRIPTION
Amazon's Transportation Optimization systems processes millions of requests per second to determine guaranteed delivery dates and determine optimal transportation path to deliver millions of packages to customers worldwide faster and cheaper. Our mission critical systems make optimal decisions impacting billions of dollars a year and set new standards for online shopping experience.
With rapid expansion into new geographies, innovations in supply chain, delivery models and customer experience, increasingly complex transportation network, ever expanding selection of products and growing number of shipments worldwide, we have an opportunity to build software that scales the business, leads the industry through innovation and delights millions of customers worldwide.
We're looking for a Support Engineer to own automation, scaling, and solving operations with software across our platforms. This will include identifying and resolving issues, automating and improving repetitive processes, and working closely with the development team to identify operational needs. You will become intimately familiar with the architecture of our systems, and be responsible for diving deep into code, while developing solutions for our customers and services. Youll drive prioritization of operational issues, and drive automation design & scaling requirements in support of the wider organization.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
1+ years of practical knowledge of tech fundamentals (operating systems, databases, networking, storage, etc).
1 + years of proficiency in at least one modern programming language.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience specifying, designing, and/or implementing system health, performance monitoring tools.
Experience monitoring the health of software services, automating system health, maintenance tasks, and reporting systems as needed.
Experience designing and/or implementing automated software testing, deployment and performance analysis systems.
Experience conducting failure mode analysis in complex distributed systems.
Experience conducting efficiency and duplication analysis across large organizations.
Experience reviewing and refining design and architecture documents presented by partner teams for operational readiness, fault tolerance and scalability.
Experience with AWS Services - AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
Experience developing or furthering existing application and system management tools and processes that reduce manual efforts and increase overall efficiency.
Manage directly assigned tasks, and on-call duties gracefully.
Ability to work in a diverse team environment.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Seattle, WA
Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) segments. It sells merchandise and content purchased for resale from third-party sellers through physical stores and online stores.
The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo devices; provides Kindle Direct Publishing, an online service that allows independent authors and publishers to make their books available in the Kindle Store; and develops and produces media content.
In addition, it offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Websites, as well as their own branded Websites; and programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, the company provides compute, storage, database, and other AWS services, as well as compute, storage, database offerings, fulfillment, publishing, digital content subscriptions, advertising, and co-branded credit card agreement services.
Additionally, it offers Amazon Prime, a membership program, which provides free shipping of various items; access to streaming of movies and TV episodes; and other services. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, and content creators. Amazon.com, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Volkswagen AG. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.