System Development Engineer II

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Go is a new kind of store with no lines and no checkout—you just grab and go! Customers use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take what they want from our selection of fresh, delicious meals and grocery essentials, and go! Check it out at amazon.com/go

Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and cooperate in a highly collaborative environment that’s more startup than big company. We’ll need to take on problems spanning various domains, including image recognition, computer vision, machine learning, real-time and distributed systems.

As a Systems Admin/Engineer II, you will push the limits to automate anything and everything you can. You will drive service scaling to a massive scale while working towards eliminating human touch in the process. You will help solve a variety of technical challenges and mentor other engineers. You will work with a team of engineers to ensure the bar is kept at its highest. You will play an active role in defining the support processes for new technologies in partnership with other technology leaders within the team. You will support a variety of services and technologies Microsoft, Linux and AWS technologies. You will work on challenging, situations daily and given the size of this initiative, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. Be prepared to develop a solution and then scale it to meet the business needs. Understanding how systems, services and protocols all work together and how to scale these environments to a massive scale while driving automation will provide all the challenges you could hope for. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that may have never existed.
Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience in IoT, embedded software systems and AWS
Experience in automating the existing manual tasks/SOPs
Advanced knowledge of networking protocols and support
Deep understanding of Linux internals and administration
Experience/Deep knowledge on Sys Admin tasks, Networking/infrastructure
Experience in developing the monitoring solutions

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Development experience in one or more object-oriented programming languages
Experience with one or more scripting languages
Bachelors in computer science with 4+ years experience or 6+ years of software experience
Basic understanding of common network protocols
Experience in troubleshooting software systems
Experience with full software development life cycle including design, implementation, deployment and support (Operational excellence focus)
Basic understanding of Linux/Unix