DESCRIPTION
Amazon’s Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON) Team is looking for a System Development Engineer to join our team in Bengaluru. Who are we? We host Amazon’s websites. That includes all of Amazon’s global marketplaces and partner portals, and all of Amazon’s consumer experiences like Kindle, Alexa, Amazon Video, Mobile Application; Physical Stores, Luna…. Not only we help deliver the html that delights our customers, we make sure that all underlying transactions are processed error-free. This includes payments, tax, contracts, returns, inventory, and notifications; and brand new experiences that have never been done before. In short, we perform cloud infrastructure management at the biggest scale in the known universe. We also look good doing it. We’re a diverse international team made up of engineers, developers, administrators and managers. We’re obsessed with operational quality, security, reducing cost, increasing availability and keeping the largest eCommerce infrastructure purring. Our team has offices in Seattle, New York, Dublin, Bangalore and Hyderabad. We’re looking for a Systems Development Engineer who is inventive, who understands operational excellence, and can work to scale. A big part of our job is creating and updating strategic SRE tool-kit built on AWS technology. We use these tools across Amazon to deploy, monitor and operate the hundreds of thousands of services that power our highly distributed architecture. Our tools include orchestration, predictive analytics, monitoring, problem diagnosis and automated repair. These let us deploy configurations that intelligently manage how traffic flows through our highly distributed architecture to our delighted customers.
Key Responsibilities:
System Development engineers troubleshoot, debug, evaluate and resolve computer-identified alarms, make feature enhancements, bug fixes, systems management, perform software deployments and migrations, host management and automate routine operational tasks. The position requires a combination of strong troubleshooting, technical, programming/scripting and communication skills and includes a mix of on call and operational tasks and involves small to medium level software development work. Responsible to develop tools and automation to achieve human free operations. They use the right tool for the job, and modify software in a way that leverages the overall system architecture. If you have a strong Application Support background, are interested in aggressive growth and have passion to develop tools at large scale, this is the opportunity for you.
Basic qualifications
Qualifications: · Technical background (BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or related discipline/experience) · 4+ years of experience · Strong Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design and problem solving · Strong Unix base O/S experience or proven ability to pick up Linux quickly · Intermediate to advanced proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages Java or C++ or C · Intermediate to advanced proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Ruby, Python, Perl, or Java · Ability to write complex SQL queries is added advantage · Strong debugging/troubleshooting skills · Basic understanding of relational and object-oriented database technologies · Experience working with distributed systems and/or large-scale web applications · A solid grasp of networking fundamentals, including experience with load balancers, switches, routers, etc · Basic understanding of DNS, DHCP, SSH, HTTP, TCP/IP and other common network protocols · Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals · A passion towards problem-solving · Strong decision-making ability · Must be able to think proactively; excellent follow-through and attention to details. professional experience in commercial or web-scale system software development and delivery · Track record for being detail-oriented and demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on projects
Preferred qualifications :
Proven object-oriented design and implementation skills, preferably on Unix/Linux platform
Experience automating software deployments and following a continuous delivery and deployment model
Experience with agile software development methodologies
Advanced proficiency in more than one high-level programming language: Ruby, Python, Perl, or Java
Advanced understanding of DNS, DHCP, SSH, HTTP, TCP/IP and other common network protocols
Experience with system analysis and troubleshooting in large-scale Linux environment
Strong understanding of modern database technology, experience with AWS database products such as DynamoDB.
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