Description

At Amazon, innovation drives growth and enables us to offer our customers more types of products more conveniently and at even lower prices. The Amazon Books team is seeking a Support Engineer to improve workflows, reduce manual workload through application development and process automation.

The candidate will develop production applications and services to ensure a positive customer experience that is inline with Amazon business objectives. They have an understanding and empathy for Amazon’s customers and business objectives, particularly those aspects relevant to the team and division (where “division” is an organization which can include about 150 people).

The Systems Development engineer will continually align their work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value. They proactively and continually improve their level of knowledge about Amazon’s business and relevant technologies. They regularly work across multiple teams to resolve issues.

About the team

The Katalyst tech team within Books has 11 Application Engineers, who support 6 business teams by providing application development, process automation and workflow support services.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Chennai, TN, IND

Basic Qualifications

• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

• Experience tools for automation (building, testing, releasing or monitoring)

• 3+ years of DevOps or SysOps in a large-scale software development environment experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of and proficiency in the use of Python scripting language

• Experience on highly concurrent, high throughput systems and knowledge of complex distributed systems

• Experience with distributed operational health and performance monitoring systems

• Experience with iterative, agile development methodologies (including scrum)