What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Development Engineer , Sort Tech Support position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
Are you interested in working for an innovative, high-impact business? Do you have a passion for problem solving? Amazon is looking for a Systems Development Engineer to join the Sort Tech team. Sort Tech is establishing a comprehensive support program to help improve our internal Customer’s experience with our suite of products and services that enable sortation, containerization, loading, and unloading processes at all nodes in Amazon's worldwide transportation network.
This team provides on-call support on a rotation basis schedule among the team members. Your solutions will impact our customers directly! This job requires you to constantly hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks will define your success.
Your problem solving skills and solutions will benefit customers directly, ensuring Amazon is able to meet all its commitments to our customers. Primary responsibilities include troubleshooting, diagnosing and fixing production software issues, developing monitoring solutions, performing software maintenance and configuration, implementing the fix for internally developed code (Perl, Ruby, C/C , JAVA), performing SQL queries, updating, tracking and resolving technical challenges, build and develop tools which will automate daily operational activities. Responsibilities also include working alongside development teams on Sort Tech software projects, updating/enhancing our current software, automation of support processes and documentation of our systems.
This job requires you to constantly hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks will define your success. High Impact production issues often require coordination between multiple Development, Operations and IT Support groups, so you get to experience a breadth of impact with various groups.
The ideal candidate must be detail oriented, have superior verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills, able to juggle multiple tasks at once, work independently and can maintain professionalism under pressure. You must be able to identify problems before they happen and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages. Your ability to accurately prioritize projects, make sound judgments, work to improve the customer experience, and get the right things done would have direct impact on Amazon’s Transportation network efficiency.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C , C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
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