Description
Global Engineering Technical Services (GETS) is looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented Systems Development Engineer (SysDE) who has experience in supporting innovative and mission critical software tools. In this role, you will be building & supporting complex software tools and data solutions with automations using AWS tech stacks. You will have an enormous opportunity to work on multiple AWS tech stacks, researching and identifying opportunities to have a positive impact on customer experience.
Key job responsibilities
As a SysDE in the GETS org, you’ll work closely with some of the brightest app developers, Data Engineers, SDE’s and TPM’s to solve highly complex challenges related to software tools. You will be responsible for designing and developing software solutions/tools to improve speed, quality and efficiency of various teams working on Amazon projects. You will be working on tools and infrastructure challenges involving software, big data and large scale back-end cloud services, all with the goal of delivering seamless experience to the customer.
A day in the life
A successful candidate will have a deep technical expertise, excellent leadership skills, an interest in developing software, data & infrastructure solutions/automations, excellent organizational skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. Candidate must have demonstrated the ability to manage complex software products, understand business use cases and translate them into technical requirements, build solutions that are reliable and scalable
You should be comfortable diving deep into technical architectures and requirements, be able to quickly identify solutions to challenges discovered during development, and ready to work with some of the latest cloud computing technology. Prior experience with building stable & scalable software and data solutions is required. Prior experience with databases, designing massively parallel systems is a plus.
About the team
GETS organization is responsible for providing software and data solutions for organizations working on delivering capacity to the Amazon Fulfillment network, including planning, configuration management, design, construction, startup, launch, and operations engineering teams. Partnering with app developers, SDE’s, Data Engineers and TPM’s, you would support existing software tools/infrastructure and help build new ones to be used by various teams across the globe. Successful members of this team collaborate effectively to solve problems, implement new solutions, and deliver successfully against high operational standards
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bellevue, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field
5+ years software/systems development experience using Java, Python, C#, C++ or other similar object-oriented languages
Experience in operating and supporting production environments (Infra, Web Services, on-call)
Experience with one or more query language (e.g., SQL, PL/SQL, DDL, MDX, HiveQL, Spark SQL, Scala)
Administrative experience in networking, Linux, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of and proficiency in the use of Python scripting language
Experience in software development using type script, react and Java.
Experience on highly concurrent, high throughput systems and knowledge of complex distributed systems
Experience in operating, troubleshooting and mitigating failures in highly-available services.
Experience in building infrastructure to support Machine Learning or data science models.
Experience in using data stores such as MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, Dynamo DB.
Experience in building systems using AWS services such as S3, ECS, Route 53, Lambda, Step Functions, Airflow.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $103,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.