Site Reliability Engineer, Amazon
Core Network
Office located in Thames Valley, London
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Thames Valley, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of professional software development experience
- 1+ year of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, *nix operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (host networking, storage, *nix operating systems)
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, C++, C#, Java, Golang, Ruby
Desirable
- Experience with Python (preferred)
- Experience with structured coding techniques, CI/CD pipelines build processes, Git, code reviews, unit testing
- Experience of designing, developing or operating cloud services running on AWS
What the job involves
- * Simplifying and reinventing systems, processes, and tools to make things better for our customers
- * Managing and growing innovative, production-quality tools to solve real operational problems for our network
- * Investigating technical issues scientifically and thoroughly, and assist in fixing them so they don't come back
- * Providing technical solutions to real business problems in a global organization
- A Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for maintaining their teams’ services, requiring them to troubleshoot and identify the root causes of any issues that arise within their systems and any subcomponents
- A Site Reliability Engineer will utilise testing, monitoring, and validations on their services, tools, and infrastructure to ensure their teams can continuously deploy new versions of the services with minimal interruption
- A Site Reliability Engineer will identify areas to invent, refine, and develop automation and tools to reduce manual operations and fulfil the requirements of the business and their customers
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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